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In the news

Today’s Sunday Express carries a story about the proposed “star rating” scheme for motorway services, and it includes three quotes from our reader comments. Unfortunately, I can’t find the story online at their website, so I can’t link to it, but I think it reports the situation pretty well.

Star ratings

According to a recent BBC news report, motorway service areas could soon get official “star ratings” similar to those used for hotels, etc:

Motorway service stations in England could be given hotel-style star ratings in an effort to improve quality, the government has said.

The “quality scheme” would look at factors including food and drink, toilets and general cleanliness.

Apart from the fact that this seems a clear rip-off of our own burger ratings, it seems like a reasonable idea. The real question is whether or not the ratings scheme will take account of what people really want in an MSA, rather than what the Highways Agency thinks they ought to want.

There’s more information on the proposals in the Highways Agency press release, and the full text of the report is also available as a PDF download.

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