This from the Indie...
Ms Greening is suggesting that fares should go up by about 6 per cent – 1 per cent above inflation – in a move to reduce the impact on hard-pressed commuters and long-distance travellers.
Good effort!
UPDATE: This from Ithuriel...
How disappointing to see the Fact Compiler in 'God Bless yer Guv, you're a real toff' pitiful gratitude mode over Mrs Greening's alleged intervention on fares increases.
If the user doesn't pay more for their grossly uneconomic train-ride to work, then the tax-payer will have to make up the difference since the railway fat cats seem unable to curb their inflated costs.
UPDATE: This from Prof Calculus...
Please someone tell me this is a joke!
T12 is already long gone and it will prove virtually impossible to deflate the millions of fares already in the system for January.
This looks like half-baked policy on the hoof. Madness.
