{"id":31172,"date":"2024-04-26T03:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=31172"},"modified":"2024-04-26T03:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:36:37","slug":"comment-chair-of-independent-rail-retailers-irr-anthony-smith-responds-to-labours-policy-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=31172","title":{"rendered":"COMMENT: Chair of Independent Rail Retailers (IRR) Anthony Smith responds to Labour\u2019s policy announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers can learn more about Labour\u2019s policy announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/news\/171142\/labour-rail-policy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Smith, chair of <a href=\"https:\/\/independentrailretailers.co.uk\/\">Independent Rail Retailers (IRR)<\/a> said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Independent Rail Retailers association welcomes <a href=\"https:\/\/labour.org.uk\/\">Labour\u2019s<\/a> statement about the potential future direction of the railways and its ambitious delivery plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetailing is the gateway to growth on Britain\u2019s railways, and as experts and innovators in this field, we look forward to working with any future government to develop a forward-thinking, passenger-focused policy in this area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndependent retailers, in partnership with Government and the rail industry, can help more people choose rail, boosting passenger numbers, fares revenue and value for money for passengers and taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><strong>More Like This<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/news\/171161\/mark-plowright-labour\/\">COMMENT: Virgin Trains Ticketing Director, Mark Plowright, reacts to Labour\u2019s policy announcement<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/news\/171171\/andy-bagnall-labour\/\">COMMENT: Rail Partners\u2019 Andy Bagnall responds to Labour\u2019s rail policy<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/news\/171182\/freightliner-labour\/\">Freightliner welcomes Labour\u2019s plan for rail freight growth<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers can learn more about Labour\u2019s policy announcement here. Anthony Smith, chair of Independent Rail Retailers (IRR) said: \u201cThe Independent Rail Retailers association welcomes Labour\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47,488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-opinion","category-rail-news","category-railway-stations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}