Eamonn, is the picture any clearer yet?

埃蒙 情况清楚一些了吗？

Even Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute, a libertarian think-tank which pioneered the idea of separating the management of track and trains, admits that franchises " didn't work out as we intended" .

甚至亚当·斯密研究所的埃蒙·巴特勒也承认，特许经营“并没有像我们预想的那样成功”。