Public Sector Pay Restraint Ending?

Windofchange

economic wrote: »

i really dont see the problem.

Which pretty much sums up the entirety of your posting on here. I'll check back in with you when London hospitals are completely crippled.

Windofchange

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Then the problem lies elsewhere rather than simply increasing levels of pay. Crossrail should made an enormous difference to mobility.

Absolutely. We can't realistically increase levels of pay to allow people to comfortably work and live in London, so if pay can't increase then other things have to decrease. Just a question of when rather than if in my view.

kabayiri

Windofchange wrote: »

Which pretty much sums up the entirety of your posting on here. I'll check back in with you when London hospitals are completely crippled.

I'm personally rather glad we don't have a London style housing market up here in the NW.

You can find dear places to live; you can find affordable homes too; often not so far apart.

London is maybe a victim of it's own global success. Go to Vancouver. You see the same pressures on housing and associated rental costs there.

Windofchange

Yup, all major cities around the world are in a similar state. Final throws of a global credit bubble or upwards forever? Guess we all make our choices and live by them.

Tromking

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Then the problem lies elsewhere rather than simply increasing levels of pay. Crossrail should made an enormous difference to mobility.

How will the new found capability of moving horizontally across London by rail help?

Thrugelmir

Tromking wrote: »

How will the new found capability of moving horizontally across London by rail help?

Links vertically as well.

Tromking

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Links vertically as well.

The question still stands.

economic

Tromking wrote: »

The question still stands.

you will only get simple pointless answers from him.

Thrugelmir

Tromking wrote: »

The question still stands.

Well worth getting an understanding of the project.

In answer to your question.

An estimated 250 million passengers a year will pass in and out of the three key central London Crossrail stations – Tottenham Court Road, Bond Street and Farringdon

That's some footfall.

Tromking

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Well worth getting an understanding of the project.

In answer to your question.



That's some footfall.

Again, I don't see how Crossrail would in and of itself be a solution.
Free or subsidised public transport for PS workers might help, I believe the Met and the BTP help with the rail travel of its Officers into London quite successfully.
That said, when you're struggling to recruit and retain staff nationwide it can't be all about London and the South-East.