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Old November 21st 03, 12:15 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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Default The effects of a road congestion tax

In article ,
(Oliver Keating) wrote:

Rural bus services are under threat because no one uses them, and those
that do are probably recieving about £10 subsidy per journey.


I'm not sure where you get this figure from. In Cambridgeshire they start
withdrawing subsidies when costs get much over £2 per passenger. Cambridge
City Council has just agreed to withdraw a couple of night routes because
their subsidies got over £10.

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Colin Rosenstiel