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February 16, 2026

Rhetoric is in the air following John Swinney's trumpeting of both the abolition of peak fares on ScotRail and a freeze on ticket prices.

- Peter Smaill, Edinburgh

But are these boons costless?The first experiment on peak fares abolition in 23-24 was a failure, or in Natspeak, a "limited success". Passenger numbers hardly rose so in effect it was a subsidy from taxpayers to middle-class commuters. Some 50 pe

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