Michael\u00a0has said that he is \u2018underwhelmed\u2019 by the proposed Southeastern timetable effective May 2018.<\/p>\n
The comment was included in Michael’s response to the Southeastern May 2018 Timetable Consultation<\/em>, which sets out proposed changes to the timetable operated by Southeastern.\u00a0 The consultation is one of a series of rail consultations that have been live over the summer period.<\/p>\n Among the proposed changes are plans to reduce the number of London destinations at peak times in order to ensure a simpler and more reliable service.\u00a0 Whilst Michael supports the plan in principle, he warns that the redistribution of trains between Charing Cross, Blackfriars and Cannon Street must not come at the cost of lengthened journey times for passengers wishing to go to their original destination.<\/p>\n Michael said: \u2018There are no major changes and the level of service will be broadly what it is today at a stage when a major rethink is required.\u00a0 My constituents require faster, more regular and reliable train services. \u00a0Overall, I\u2019m underwhelmed by Southeastern\u2019s new proposals.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael\u00a0has said that he is \u2018underwhelmed\u2019 by the proposed Southeastern timetable effective May 2018. The comment was included in Michael’s response to the Southeastern May 2018 Timetable Consultation, which sets out proposed changes to the timetable operated by Southeastern.\u00a0 The consultation is one of a series of rail consultations that have been live over the … Continue reading “New Rail Timetable Underwhelming”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[594,593,563,576,592,497,90,578,58,573,591,455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}