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Train and bus firms urgently need to find a route back to viability amid the Covid-19 crisis 
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Investments, jobs and a fund to support UK firms expanding globally have been announced by Theresa May.
Graham Watson's insight:
At last, some good macroeconomic news: high levels of tech investment. Multiplier effects, and positive externalities, all round!
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Train operators and the government are planning to increase rail services from mid-May onwards.
Graham Watson's insight:
It seems that, at some level, we are entering the post-lockdown phase of the coronavirus pandemic, with transport services restarting.
This article makes the vital role of public transport plays in a functioning economy and might give rise to some discussion of the positive externalities that it generates across the country.
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Just some many starting points here - the importance of public transport, the extent to which it generates positive externalities, but let's start with a remarkable statistic.
Since the start of lockdown, "Each passenger journey, on average, has cost the public purse £100 since lockdown." Wowsers!