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TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps was lambasted today after suggesting that train companies should be financially rewarded for running services on time.
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Shapps said that railway companies should be “incentivised” to run properly after figures showed fewer than two-thirds ran on time in the last year ending in June.
He said train operators are “not really paid for the trains running on time specifically, and that’s something we can change structurally on the railway.”
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