Usefulness of Adonis’ rail odyssey across the UK queried by cynics

The question of whether transport minister Andrew Adonis taking a week to travel across the nation’s rail network would prove useful was hotly debated in the media, especially online.

Transport minister Andrew Adonis’ ‘fact finding’ trip around the UK’s rail network, which he reported on in a daily blog for The Times, was greeted with a mixture of enthusiasm and cynicism by media columnists and internet readers. “Good luck to transport minister Andrew Adonis,” began Kevin Maguire, The Daily Mirror’s associate political editor on 15 April. “The minister… wants to see first-bottom what the network’s really...

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