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Roland Perry · July 5th 10, 08:58 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 10:20:12
on Sun, 4 Jul 2010, remarked:
It appears that the funding will shift from District to County councils
in 2011. That will smooth things out a bit but still needs a grant
formula which relates more closely to actual expenditure.

It's not going to help somewhere like Peterborough[1], which would
presumably have the same problem as Cambridge does now.

[1] Which as we all know is a unitary County.

How short of its concessionary fares spend is the grant it receives? Not
over £1 million as in Cambridge, I bet.

Peterborough is bigger, so maybe there are even more people travelling
in to do their shopping. On the other hand maybe Peterborough county
includes most of its suburbs, in a way that Cambridge doesn't. Your
problem is presumably having so much residential so close, that's
actually in Scambs.
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Roland Perry