Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "We are investing in the biggest rail modernisation since the Victorian era and fares have a crucial role to play in funding these improvements.
A total of £1.3m was spent on flights in 2013-14 and 2104-15 but £32m was spent on rail travel during that period.
Thousands of London-bound commuters have been left stranded on held-up trains for up to four hours after a power supply problem caused chaos at Clapham Junction, the UK's busiest rail station.
There was One North's £15bn transport infrastructure plan, including a high-speed rail link, "HS-3", from Manchester to Leeds – reportedly even more extravagant than the proposed high speed rail link, HS2.
"To get that, we need access to childcare as much as we need access to roads and rail".
We are making the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s and the biggest in rail since Victorian times, connecting 40,000 premises to superfast broadband every week, and starting an energy revolution with the first new nuclear plant in a generation, the world's first green investment bank and the largest production of offshore wind on the planet.
In an unusually frank speech to an audience of leading rail industry figures, Carne said: "While our passenger safety performance is the best in Europe, about 600 railway workers a year – employees and contractors – are injured to the extent that they cannot return to work the next day.
Passengers affected by rail delays are now able to receive cash compensation instead of vouchers, in a major change to policy by operators.
She is far from immune from fashion snobbery, and has been known to rail against fat people wearing stretch jeans, and anyone at all wearing flip-flops, but she speaks sense on the subject of ageing.
Your job: to cross roads, rail tracks and rivers with a host of characters, hitting restart after every splat to get them back into the action.
As CityMetric reports, the "Talsinkifix" rail link project would cost €9bn at current prices, and, at a minimum of 50km from one coast to the other, would be the longest undersea tunnel in the world.
