Extortion by the transportation companies

I still don't understand the reasoning behind the continued price hikes for train tickets, it is called public transport for a reason, how do they expect the public to afford it when you keep raising the price so that only wealthy people can use it, but of course they don't because they have drivers to drive them.

The spokesman for the rail industry keeps saying how they reinvest all the money to provide the traveler with a better travel experience, what a bunch of horse crap! They continue to rise the price so their shareholders get more dividends, They don't care about us, if they did it would have never been privatised.

The service has not improved, you are still met with long delays and when you do finally get on you can hardly breathe let alone get a seat because it is so packed with sweaty people. And that is hardly good for a person with any kind of disability. There is always a gap between the train and platform which sometimes is so big you actually have to hop across! And instead of addressing this issue as a serious fault, they turn it into a money making scheme by selling " mind the gap" t -shirts and mugs for all the tourists who all come to London to get ripped off.

And what should cause great shame but instead brings out great pride is the generally filth and vomit that can be found on display, especially today, when people go to their New Years Eve parties. Fair enough the people what to get so drunk as to erase the past 12 crappy months but do they really need to urinate and vomit in the stations? Don't you people understand that this is how diseases spread, so if the wealthy elites invest some money in simple things like cleaners, you are actually saving yourselves. And as London is supposedly a major tourist hub, what kind of image are you trying to send out?

More importantly than the bad behaviour by the public is the lack of concern from the train companies, why don't they hire extra cleaners during those periods? The answer is fairly obvious to anyone paying attention- It costs money and by hiring more cleaning staff will cut into their profits. You see companies only have loyalty towards profit, anything else is someone else's problem, which is the ordinary people. This isn't even proper capitalism because there is no competition. for the average person public transport is the only way to get into London, the whole system is made in a way to force you into a car, but than parking in London is awful and not to forget the congestion charge. This is just another tax on the poor, and what I don't understand is that in the age of green energy to help save the planet, why are they forcing us into vehicals that is killing the planet??

There has been no investment in public transport/ infrastructure from the days of Thatcher up to the present day of Cameron and it's not as if Labour are any better- they are all a manifestation of the same thing- Elitist snobs or Eton toffs!