"Andrew" wrote in message
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You also have massively subsidised tube, bus and Overground
rail alternatives.

Massive subsidies ?

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Transport for London (TfL) had been told in 2013 it
would eventually have to be self-sufficient with its
operating costs.

Today it was told by when.

There will be no more general grants from the government for
day-to-day running of services from 2018 - earlier than TfL thought.

What it means is by 2018 London will be the only city in Europe where
there is no day-to-day transport subsidy.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34923879

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Gwyn Topham
Wed 25 Nov 2015

Transport has been dealt the deepest cut to its day-to-day spending of
any government department, with the subsidy for London services to be
removed entirely.


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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...est-budget-cut

The only reason there are "subsidies" in London at all is because
these are recouped from taxes on employers and their employees
for whom Public Transport is a necessity, and from tourists who
spend their money around the Capital.

All removing the subsidy will do is shift the burden onto employers
and employees by fair rises and similarly make London less attractive
to tourists.

Given the state of rush hour tubes and buses its fairly obvious no
one would want to use them were there any possible alternative.
It's not their being "subsidised" up to now at least that made
them attractive. And so removing the subsidy won't achieve
anything - there's no "nudge" potential in this, all its doing is
rearranging the deckchairs for purely ideological reasons.


michael adams

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