Now it's 'Keep Fares Fair'
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WITH barely a month to go before London Transport must increase its fares by 100 per cent, the Greater London Council's Keep Fares Fair campaign has been stepped up.
Advertisements asking readers to lobby their MP appeared in national newspapers on Mon day, and a meeting of the GLC's transport and finance and general purpose committees was told on Monday that outer London could feel the worst effects of any cuts in LT services, GLC transport committee chairman Dave Wetzel said before the meeting: "Since routes in the outer boroughs are particularly uneconomic, and because we can no longer grant aid them on social grounds, they will be among the first to suffer the brunt of service cuts."
And he went on to paint a bleak picture by saying: "The report says that if fares go on increasing in real terms, then it is inevitable that some routes will be removed completely, leaving whole areas in outer London without the benefit of a bus service."