Anna Walker, from the Office of Rail Regulation, said: "To see satisfaction dip to 83% partly due to declining punctuality and reliability of services is disheartening, and reinforces our decision to bring in tough new punctuality targets for the railways".
The minister said: "I am, as I think the rest of the travelling public will be, dismayed to learn that Network Rail is still failing to tackle deterioration in the punctuality and reliability of the network - a matter I have regularly raised with them.
The selected indicators consider the safety, comfort, punctuality and reliability aspects of railway infrastructure performance.
Unskilled work should be mainly confined to the beginning of training, when the relative productivity of apprentices in skilled work is low and the development of non-cognitive skills such as punctuality, exactness, reliability or stamina (products of socialisation in the working world) are important.
Network Rail could face hefty fines after the industry regulator opened an investigation into punctuality and reliability on some of the busiest commuter routes.
It lists prices and durations, but also gives each flight a score based on an analysis of 12 criteria, including punctuality, aircraft age and the reliability of the luggage service.You can rank the flights by price, duration and score.
The current metro system scores very well on the subject of punctuality and reliability as there are hardly any breakdowns of the trains due to quality and preventive routine maintenance.
Ultimately the success of Britain's railways will be publicly judged in terms of punctuality, affordability, reliability and, most importantly, safety.
FOR an airline that had sold itself on the very Swiss characteristics of punctuality and reliability, it was an awful way to go.
Few GPs complained about non-punctuality or unreliability of PMHP with regard to appointments (14.4%) (Table 2).
