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| | | (...) Lindsay As you may know I work for Ken Livingstone indirectly, in Transport for London, so I can answer these two questions (the Underground one perhaps in more detail than you may need!) 1 - Sunday trading: The Mayor and London Assembly don't (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: UK devolved government. (was Re: Harry Potter getting left out) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) No, actually, that's probably not as much detail as I could withstand. :D I read pretty closely on the matter when I was living in Hornsey and in Acton, especially after Kiley got involved because I use Boston's and New York's systems quite (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: UK devolved government. (was Re: Harry Potter getting left out) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) You need to read a bit more widely, perhaps. And does the fact that "everyone says so" make something actually "so" ?? (...) In what way is Railtrack an example of privatization? There's still one company controlling *all* the track that is (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | | (...) Well that's what it the Government called it at the time! A state owned business was split up and the parts were either sold, floated or transferred under franchises. Of course you are right that Railtrack is a monopoly but it's still (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Yes. But calling something X doesn't make it X. Unless you agree that California recently "deregulated" its power industry. (...) I totally agree with that! In our country the FCC seems bent on engineering the "correct" number of wireless (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | (...) Just for clarification (since there's no way to defend CA's policy): can a system be referred to as "deregulated" if regulations are removed; ie: reduced regulation = deregulation, or is it necessary for *all* regulation to be removed; ie: no (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | | (...) I don't have enough information on that. I'm interested because I have a fair few friends who it affects and I've tried to follow the situation in the Economist and other places but failed. My point was as set out below - You appear to be (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | (...) I don't. I think it is plain wrong! From: (URL) sale of government-owned equity in nationalised industries or other commercial enterprises to private investors. The sale may either transfer all the equity to private ownership, or the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) I agree, inasmuch as we're talking about privatization in practice, not theoretical Libertarian privatization, which I would agree would function more effectively than the half-assed privatization Railtrack represents (but, I would also argue, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry (was Re: UK devolved government (was Harry Potter but who remembers that?) —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:GJGLDJ.5nz@lugnet.com... (...) You might have guessed that in the UK, airports are privatised too! www.baa.co.uk owns 7 british airports including Heathrow And also owns or manages under (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: British railway industry —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: I agree, inasmuch as we're talking about privatization in (...) Except for, as I said, how do you incentivise the public sector to deliver value for taxpayers money? When BR knew it had the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: UK devolved government. (was Re: Harry Potter getting left out) —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:GJF0zu.LB6@lugnet.com... (...) I would have thought the UK has plenty of history of struggle between local, state and federal over the centuries. We've had civil wars, and the formation (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: UK devolved government. (was Re: Harry Potter getting left out) —Simon Bennett
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| | | | (...) Not in my opinion: (...) All of these were at national level, either two nations against each other or two sides vying for control of the whole nation. (...) Scottish and Welsh devolution are close, but there was no level of government (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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