Muddying waters over 'real' cost of train price rise
Post categories: Oyster card, Rail
|11:21 UK time, Tuesday, 23 November 2010
So the average increase in tickets on trains (not tube or overground) will be 6.2% next year. That's regulated peak and season tickets and unregulated off peak fares.
Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) says it has to introduce these rises as the Government wants to reduce the subsidy it gives to train companies.
The reality may be different for many travellers though. If 6.2 is an average it means many will get higher increases than that. And ATOC isn't supplying a breakdown of individual train company increases.
That will leave it open to criticism it is trying to muddy the waters.
Anyway 6.2% - compared to an average last year of 1.1%. Your thoughts please...
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