> If trains were made cheaper, some of them would become extremely unpleasant to use. Yes, it is a fact of modern life that one reason there's no political wil

> If trains were made cheaper, some of them would become extremely unpleasant to use. Yes, it is a fact of modern life that one reason there's no political will to reduce ticket prices is that it's an effective pricing mechanism for limiting demand or pushing travellers to other modes of transport to avoid further overcrowding – as perverse as that sounds for a rail network.