Public transport in this country is a joke

[Tueresmuyguapo]

I've lived in other countries and whilst nowhere is perfect, the UK has by far the worst transportation system I've seen.
Strikes are now a regular occurrence.
I don't drive and rely on public transportation, luckily I am hybrid remote but I am now moving very close to my offices because I can no longer rely on trains.
It also seems that the rail system cannot handle the slightest bit of bad weather. I am in the North West, and yesterday I had to wait 3 hours at the train station in order to get a train.
Several trains were cancelled pretty much at the minute they were due to leave, we were moved from platform to platform, from train to train.
People crammed into carriages like sardines, with it being a Saturday night and the dreaded football hooligans out, it was full of reckless idiots, football hooligans bellowing out chants at top note on the train.
The prices are a rip off when on many services you are not able to reserve a seat, and a lot of people have an every man for themselves mentality, they will shove past you in order to get a seat. I had a very large suitcase and one or two kind people did offer to help me.
I had the same issues on Friday. 4 different trains to get to work instead of the usual one. Arrived 1.5 hours late.
£20 return for a 38 minute journey at peak travel times I have to pay.
When I can afford it, I'm learning to drive, not that that's perfect either but I can no longer rely on the trains, strikes have become the norm and I am also fed up with paying for tickets at twice the cost as a result on these days. Is anyone else just fed up ?

YANBU. France is a much better example of working integrated transport systems.

But l think it’s unfair to blame strikers for transport failures.

Some stations such as Oxford have more than one train operator. But if there is a cancellation, your ticket does not usually permit you on the next available train. It’s the wrong livery.

Yes, completely agree about France!

To add, some transport operators are at least in part, owned by overseas governments. So government owned is fine, providing it’s not the UK government????

Yes .
Except for the London area which enjoys cheap, plentiful transport systems the rest of us can only dream about.
But that’s where Policy makers live isn’t it and I wonder if they presume the whole country has the same ???

Privatisation 💪

Profit over people

Usual shit deal of privatising the profits, socialising the costs so we end up paying for it anyway but rather than it going into the service, it goes into the pockets of shareholders and fat cats.