Originally Posted by
Sir David Gray
I don't think this should come as any surprise to anyone.
I think it's completely wrong how this has come about of course as it was clearly publicised as a temporary measure back in November 2020 and was supposed to be "reviewed continuously as government guidelines change."
The law on wearing a face covering on public transport was lifted nearly 8 weeks ago so I'm not too sure what government guidelines they are still referring to.
The fact they are having to resort to lying to people on social media is not a good look at all. I understand that people are saying there's no big deal in banning alcohol on trains but to me it goes deeper than that. It's something which was brought in to deal with a very specific emergency situation, an emergency situation which no longer exists and therefore I strongly believe all pandemic related emergency measures should be lifted immediately.
I suspect this has always been something which has been on the cards and the pandemic was just the convenient opportunity they needed to implement it.
In my opinion there's no chance that this will be lifted now Scotrail is under Scottish Government control. I think we've seen over the last two years that treating people as adults is not too high on their priority list.
We already had "dry" trains on routes where there was the possibility of alcohol related trouble taking place and also a ban on drinking alcohol before and after certain times of the day. I don't see why there is any need to go further.
The people who are inclined to get drunk and cause trouble are not likely to be put off by an alcohol ban. It's the people who are on a day out from Edinburgh up to Inverness etc who just want to relax for a few hours and have a couple of drinks with their friends who will be the ones who will stop drinking.
The whole thing stinks.
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