You do subsidise it, whether the roads (which are massively subsidied) or the railway.
The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railway.
The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railway.
Not much, as you can see by @cirrus-cloud's price comparisons.
>The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railway.
It wasn't a picture of efficiency when the state ran it.
Privatisation didn't deliver what it promised.
The number of journeys has increased by 128%.
The average real-terms increase in fares has been lower than under British Rail.
We now have the safest railways in Europe [1].
The amount of investment has gone up nine-fold. [2]
What hasn't happened is stopping politicians meddling with it, this was a problem before and continues to be.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-sa...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...