New rail contract award to Go-Ahead branded ‘a sick joke’
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5XGH6)
Contract to run Britain's biggest commuter rail network comes a week after 23.5m fine
Transport group Go-Ahead has been awarded a new contract to run Britain's biggest commuter rail network - a week after being fined 23.5m for wrongly withholding 50m of taxpayers' money on another franchise.
Unions said it was a sick joke" that the group's Govia joint venture was given a three-year deal to continue running the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, which served about a million passengers daily pre-Covid.
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