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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
It already expensive with the latest fare rises!
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Perhaps you should ask yourself the real question then as to why the costs are so high to the public and how that then sits with your statement of
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
I feel that Tfl should give in to their demands for the sake of communters!
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Wages are clearly a major proportion of the costs of running a transport system, with the infrastructure maintenance and investment costs the other big part. Both need to be balanced if a system is to be efficient against the income that is acceptable from fares and other grants and subsidies.
The money to meet demands of unions has to come from somewhere. It might be great to take the communist or socialist approach (some thing that failed in the soviet block countries that are now pursuing a more capitalist economy) so that high earning individuals are taxed to such a level where they have no incentive to innovate and will look to relocate to other countries so that all their income is lost to our economy.
Funding is not the bottomless pit you seem to extole. Or actually perhaps that is how you see the underground as a big hole that is bottomless in terms of the expenditure that should be allowed?