This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Be Fair - Reduce fares on Kent's slower and mainline and metro serivces.
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At present an unfair Complete Monopoly is awarded to the winning bidder of the Kent franchise. Thus controlling a monopoly of high speed and "cattle truck" metro and mainline services. This allows Favour to HS services ( in some cases by scandalously slowing existing services) offers no chance of competition that privatiation was supposed bring.
In the 2014 we the Kent rail users, Supporters and Residents and demand that franchise requirements after the 2014 Tender. Privdes competition on Kent railways bring a reduction to the "Cattle truck" fares rip off and monopoly presently enjoyed by Southeastern.
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