Opinion: Better WiFi would send out the right signals to passengers

One of the worst ideas of the previous Transport Secretary Mark Harper was to scrap WiFi provision for rail passengers.

They don’t need it, was the argument. People could always get connected through the mobile signal - and cutting it would save money. Had the man ever tried to use his phone on a train?

Harper and his Rail Minister Huw Merriman tried to argue that it would save a lot of money and that passengers did not use the service.