Letter: Sense in selling the Underground

Tuesday 04 March 1997 00:02 GMT

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Sir: The Rev Jeremy Craddock (letter, 3 March) may find the basis of the London Underground sale more comprehensible if he considers the idea of selling his family car to someone for pounds 1,500 and then paying the purchaser pounds 1,500 to make the car available, in good condition, for his family's use in perpetuity. Moreover, when the car is worn out, the purchaser has to provide usage of another car at no extra cost.

Why should his family object, or indeed have a say in this? They would still have use of the car, which is all they do now, since it is owned by Mr Craddock. The important issues are the price and the enforceability of future quality-of-service standards. Get those wrong and the principle is irrelevant.

GERALD DOREY

Oxford

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