(07 Oct 2016, 12:02 am)northern156 wrote Thing is, money doesn't magically create punctuality!
Obviously depending what the issue is, money can be reinvested to improve punctuality.
It is never a case of 'sh¡t, our punctuality is shocking and we are being penalised for our performance. Let's just shrug our shoulders and continue down this road until the end of the contract.
Whether it's staff, stock, infrastructure, pathing, timetables or whatever else - additional money (somewhere down the line), will be (or should be) being spent to improve punctuality and ultimately improve performance. It might be on staff wages, it could be on recruitment, it may even be on train maintenance.
I agree that it won't be magic...