{"id":38677,"date":"2018-04-27T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/27\/rail-passengers-pay-price-for-broken-franchising-system-say-mps\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T23:01:29","slug":"rail-passengers-pay-price-for-broken-franchising-system-say-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=38677","title":{"rendered":"Rail passengers pay price for broken franchising system, say MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department for Transport accused in report of not learning lessons from previous failuresThe rail franchising system is broken and passengers are paying the price, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.A scathing report by MPs on the public accounts committee said the government\u2019s management of two major franchises was \u201ccompletely inadequate\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/apr\/27\/rail-passengers-pay-price-for-broken-franchising-system-say-mps\" target=\"_blank\">Rail passengers pay price for broken franchising system, say MPs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department for Transport accused in report of not learning lessons from previous failuresThe rail franchising system is broken and passengers are paying the price, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.A scathing report by MPs on the public accounts committee said the government\u2019s management of two major franchises was \u201ccompletely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}