33.3% bus fare increase in London
I moved to London 2 and a half years ago.
Boris Johnson has just announced that bus fares are to go up by 12.7% and Tube fares will rise by 3.9%. Oyster card pay-as-you-go bus journeys are to rise from £1 to £1.20.
When I moved to London the pay-as-you-go journeys were only 90 pence. That represents an increase of 33.3% since I moved here. Is that not disgraceful? If that happens again over the next 30 months then we will be looking at £1.60 for a single journey, which would represent a 77.7% increase over 5 years.
Read about the TfL price increase
that’s a hard pill to swallow.
the bus was 80p when i lived in london, and i always go on about how cheap it was. but now it seems i’ll be eating my words.