RMT responds to National Audit Office report
(WorldNews Africa)

RMT responds to National Audit Office report on DFT`s botched South East flexible ticketing programme. RAIL UNION RMT today slammed rail companies for wasting £120 million on a botched and unpopular ticketing system as the National Audit Office published the findings from its investigation into the Department for Transport`s progress in implementing the South East Flexible Ticketing Programme. Only 8% of travellers have taken up the scheme compared to a target of 95% while costs have trebled and the programme has been stopped and restarted three times - on each occasion with a fatter budget. In January 2012, the Department set up the programme to supposedly improve coordination, speed up...