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The BBC article seems very fair, if you will pardon the pun.
I guess my reading is of it that, going forward, TfL needs to cut it’s services to the emerging patterns of travel. If people no longer want to squeeze themselves into peak time services, then it’s time to change the timetables and use the trains and buses we have already to provide a all-day off-peak type service.
This will mean, of course, that the headcount of drivers will need to come down and the number of buses leased by TfL too. I guess that someone will need to go though the bus routes and so forth to adjust them to the new usage patterns.
I suspect that this is actually a much needed move to an all-day-off-peak service that will be much more comfortable for people to use.
Of course there also needs to a conversation had about the mixture of fare- and tax-funding for the services. Perhaps we could all pay a few hundred quid more a month in a TfL-tax add-on to the council tax and and look at the need for “peak hours” to charge more.
I also guess that we might need to reconsider the likes of Crossrail 2 and how it might be easier to get people to move to Meridian Water with other measures, such as expanding the areas covered by the Tram and DLR networks.
“With space at such a premium above ground, extra space was excavated below ground to store spoil”
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The key point of the BBC article, I think, is the comparison between London & other capital cities.
And the amount of subsidy the others get & London does not. This is apparenly caused by political dogmatism & ideology over-riding the idea of having a transport system that actually works.