This week will bring the TfL Board Meeting, which often leads to a number of interesting documents (and their appendices) becoming available on the TfL website. This month, amongst those appendices, is the letter from the Mayor to TfL confirming the full schedule of fares (and increases) for January 2011.
The issue of fare increases has rightly gained some media attention over recent weeks. In the wake of the Spending Review, the Mayor quickly released details indicating that London would be subject to an average of RPI + 2% rise, a figure that had first surfaced mid-way through the year as a “guide” but which seemed to have become more than that by the time the CSR completed.
As many sources have pointed out, however, the changes to the current fare and ticketing structure run deeper than a simple price change. As 853 pointed out, the devil is in the details and those details mean significant rises in certain areas – not least because the travelcard structure is being reworked and various paper tickets abandoned.
Thus the fare tables below, featured in the Mayor’s letter to TfL, make interesting reading – not only because they give full details of the new prices passengers will pay, but also because they also each include both a price column and a percentage increase column, which makes the actual increases very clear. This is useful for those wishing to see easily exactly what their journey cost will increase by next year.
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