Darren Caplan is Chief Executive of the Railway Industry Association.
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A lack of information about upcoming work, reduces rail businesses’ investment, jobs, and skills development, and threatens the ability of smaller rail firms to survive.
In total, the industry employs more people than the entire city of Birmingham, and can play a crucial role in the country’s economic future.
Since my last article, there has been real progress to improve rail funding overall. Next we should consider how to reduce uncertainty within the supply chain.
The current funding mechanism causes harmful cycles of feast and famine.