Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by mytailorisrich on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:43PM
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> We haven't seen the same growth in other European countries though
In cities like Paris, public transport has huge capacity and is cheap (and in Paris employers have to pay half your season ticket).
Lower growth there does not mean that we're doing better, it means that we're starting from lower... And the UK has had a robust population growth as well.
> in Paris employers have to pay half your season ticket
That sounds awful - so I effectively get a paycut if I walk or ride to the office?
Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by mytailorisrich on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:54PM
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I don't understand how you can interpret it as either awful or a paycut if you don't take public transport...
If you buy a season ticket (at least a monthly ticket) to commute between your home and office you send a copy to HR and they have to refund you half of it.
That sounds like a massive incentive to hire very locally!
Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by mytailorisrich on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:21PM
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It's cheap enough that employers don't bother (and anyway it's usually not possible to...). So, no, it's not a "massive incentive".
I'm not sure train leasing is a profitable as a it was when BR was privatised and Porterbrook et al owned all the rolling stock
What seems to happen now is the manufacturers e.g. Hitachi lease the trains to TOCs complete with maintenance plans built it.
Think Eurostar was the first model of this in the Uk
I'm no fan of the franchise system - especially when companies like Virgin East Coast get out of the obligations if they don't make enough money, but rail is stronger now (well 2019) than it has been since before the motor car was created, and the strength coincided with the franchise system coming in.
> People commute by train because it's the least bad option and/or the only viable option. That does not mean that it's good or that there is real competition.
We haven't seen the same growth in other European countries though. And it's not just commuting into London -- long-distance travel has ballooned too - hence the need to build HS2.