On 26/09/2016 09:45, Recliner wrote:
tim... wrote:

"Charles Ellson" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:32:17 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 18:01:42 on Fri, 23 Sep
2016, Mizter T remarked:
The London mayor aims to deliver better, more coordinated local
services to local voters.

In the same way he aimed not to raise fares, and within days of
taking
office had to retract?

He's delivering exactly what he said he would: a TfL fares freeze. He
never promised to freeze other fares, and has no ability to do so.

Actually he did, and I agree he doesn't.

He didn't promise any more than that, and didn't "retract" anything.

From his manifesto...

"Freeze TfL transport fares for four years [...]"
(page 8, PDF page 9)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/SadiqManifesto2016

The paragraph from his manifesto which was quoted the most was:

"Londoners won't pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do
today."

Londoners don't only use trains where TfL sets the fares.

Not all the passengers are Londoners either but it seems to be one of
several places where the description "people" is displaced by a
presumption that strangers have all stayed on their own side of the
boundary.

Presumably that's just referring to Oyster fares, on the assumption that no
Londoner is stupid enough to pay cash fares, but some non Londoners do (and
then go on social media and complain about London's fares)

That's not how I read it. I think the implicit assumption was that people
living and travelling within the London boroughs mainly pay TfL zonal fares
for the Tube, Overground, trams and buses. Relatively few travellers within
London are paying fares set by TOCs, and hence unaffected by the freeze.

Most of those sarf of the river mate!


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