"Rail regulation is a shambles," says a Whitehall source.The rail regulator's problems stem from the government's failure to reform the system after Railtrack was forced into liquidation.
The latest data from the Office for Rail Regulation (ORR) shows the gap between the RPI increase and the rate at which rail fares have gone up.
The prosecution by the Office for Rail Regulation (ORR) came after it reopened its investigation into the accident following pressure from the girls' families and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association.
Unions said the numbers, published on Wednesday in a comprehensive review of railway financing by the Office for Rail Regulation (ORR), showed rail was run with "the economics of the madhouse".
The New Jersey Department of Transportation, in concert with the Surface Transportation Board, the federal agency responsible for rail regulation, should start discussions designed to enhance cooperation among state agencies and local officials and citizens and rail carriers regarding freight issues.
We've had trouble with rail regulation – a botched job from its mid-90s start – with water, banks, now the energy sector – where pricing between fuels and renewables is a recurring nightmare.
According to figures from the Office for Rail Regulation, last year ATW received the highest public subsidy per passenger mile of any franchise across the UK.
Cowen and Company's Jason Seidl -- also a contributing editor at Railway Age -- recently hosted a conference call on the new proposed oil-by-rail regulations.
The position of the rail companies regarding speed and safety on their recent quarterly investor calls was consistent, coming just before the release of the new oil-by-rail regulations. .
For example, Big Rail -- as revealed by DeSmogBlog -- lobbied against all proposed oil train speed reductions in its dozen or so private meetings at the Obama White House before the unveiling of the proposed oil-by-rail regulations. .
With its public relations work overseen and advised by SKDKnickerbocker -- co-owned by former Obama White House communications director Anita Dunn -- AAR has landed numerous meetings with the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the attempt to water down crude-by-rail regulations currently being drafted by the U.S. Department of Transportation DOTT). .
