People of Glasgow share their thoughts on train price hikes

We take to Buchanan Street to see what Glaswegians have to say about train price hikes.

Transcript

00:00Considering the upcoming increase of railfares and the hike in railcard costs,

00:06how do you think these changes will affect the overall affordability of using trains?

00:11Well the market is what the market is. I think that the cost of living has increased,

00:16prices go up, wages go up and everything else goes up. So will it have an impact in Glasgow? No,

00:22I think people will come to Glasgow because I think in comparison to other cities,

00:27Glasgow is quite good for the shops. In the case of Edinburgh, which is the other thing,

00:32they go there for other reasons. So I don't think it will put people off.

00:38There was an exercise recently of reducing the fares to see if it would increase the footfall

00:44and it didn't do as much as they thought it would but I think that was a pity that they stopped

00:50that. So do you think it will make rail travel too expensive for the average person? Probably.

00:57Yeah.