Sub-standard Fares to Go Up in London
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(IN September 2, most of the sub
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standard fares at present n operation in London will be raised to "bring them more nearly into line with the standard." This was announced, last week, by Sir John Elliot, chairman of the London Transport Executive.
Sir John said this step was the fairest way to provide the money necessary to meet the £14m. gap caused by higher costs since the beginning of the year.
It was made clear at the Press conference at which the announcement was made that this was only the first step in eventually bringing up to standard all fares below scale.
The adjustments will be made on the road services mainly by shortening some of the "excessively long" fare stages. Out of about 6,000 stages, 300 would be affected. This represents less than 5 per cent. of passenger journeys. In no case will a single fare be raised by more than 2d., and no return fare by more than 4d.
Sir John added that since the beginning of 1955 nearly £2m. a year was being saved by economies. Most of this came from reduced mileage.
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