Labours 2019 General election: Labour to cut rail fares by up to 75%

[Colemans Left Hook]

December 2nd 2019 General election: Labour to cut rail fares by up to 75%


https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/labour-rail-fares-cut-trains-peak-tickets-seasons-guards-strike-a9228621.html

General election: Labour to cut rail fares by up to 75%

Brighton-London peak tickets would fall by £20 to £7.50, and to zero for under-16s



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64066678

Regulated rail fares in England will rise by up to 5.9% from March, the Department for Transport has announced.

The rise is being capped at a level well below inflation, "to help reduce the impact on passengers", the transport secretary said.

Labour called the hike - which is still the second highest on record - "a sick joke", (what brainless labour moron said this[ - probably that one with a vacuum between her ears ) while a watchdog said passengers were not getting value for money.

Fares will officially rise on 5 March 2023.

Before the Covid pandemic, fares were raised in January each year, based on the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation from the previous July.

Inflation is the rate at which prices rise, and the normal formula for fares is RPI plus 1%.

However, the government said that "for this year only" rail fare increases for 2023 would be capped at 5.9%, well below July's RPI figure of 12.3%.

Like last year, the government is also freezing fares for January and February, so that passengers have more time to buy tickets at the existing prices.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Nope. Me neither.

[wilts rover]

Highest rail prices per mile in Europe? (By far - more than double the vast majority of European lines)

https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/train-prices-across-europe

[drfchound]

I wouldn’t like to think that I had to rely on public transport to get around.

[scawsby steve]

We all know it wants taking back into public ownership; not just some of it, all of it.

Come on Keith, show some balls and get it into that manifesto.

[wilts rover]

Most British rail services are nationalised and subsidised by the taxpayer.

It's just that they are run by the National rail operators of other countries and thus it's French, German, Italian etc taxpayers who are the beneficiaries of UK taxpayers subsidies.

[phil old leake]

Living in N Ireland the rail fares here are cheap and the trains are used by a lot of people. 
The over 60’s get free travel on buses and trains throughout the Provence  and people do use it

I think it’s publicly owned and subsidised by the government. It must cost a fortune.  I think kids can travel for next to nothing so they also use it alot

[scawsby steve]

Most British rail services are nationalised and subsidised by the taxpayer.

It's just that they are run by the National rail operators of other countries and thus it's French, German, Italian etc taxpayers who are the beneficiaries of UK taxpayers subsidies.

I think Mick Lynch would disagree with you there, Wilts.