| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Mayor's outrageous fare increases | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 19/10/09 08:57:00 |
| How fair would that be to the many who are forced to move to the SE doughnut from elsewhere, but could not possibly afford to live on London? - eg that's exactly what happened to my family in the mid 1960s - we had to settle for living in Southend (even then my parents were crippling themselves by having to pay much more for a house than they got for the one they left in the North), my father enduring then long commute to the City for years till he gave up the unequal struggle against NUR /ASLEF disruption and managed to get a post in Southend itself. Perhaps the boot should be on the other foot, with Londoners paying many times more than residents of other parts of the country to travel on the lavish regional, national and international transport facilities they've contrived to hog for themselves to the detriment of the rest of the country; with the rest not just having free travel on london local transport en route but being compensated for the serious inconvenience of having to pass through London. Of course the ultimate solution would be to take the pressure off London by moving the seat of British government to somewhere more central, ie well away from this corner of the island. |