The next boss of City corridor should offer a broad,coherent vision of public transport’s role in London’s future and Londoners’ lives [br]Two mayoral candidates enjoy made bold New Year pledges to lessen the cost of traveling round the capital aboard its lifeblood public transport modes. Labour’s Sadiq Khan, who looks to enjoy edged ahead in the race for City corridor, or has restated his promise to freeze fares across the board throughout a four-year term and to lower the price burden on multiple bus-users with a “hopper” ticket valid for an hour. The Green Party’s Sian Berry has unveiled a radical method involving abolishing the capital’s concentric pricing system in favour of “flat fares” that attend the suburbs.
Both initiatives enjoy strengths and their champions insist they are affordable. Both should also be just the beginning of a much broader debate approximately the vital part transport plays in the life of the capital and how it shapes the kind of place London is. They enjoy that potential.
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Source: theguardian.com