The only ones who enact are Zac Goldsmith and people who speak publicly for TfLOne of the tall clashes of the mayoral campaign has been over the promise by Labour’s Sadiq Khan to freeze public transport fares for the full four years of a mayoral term. Conservative Zac Goldsmith has insisted that this would be “catastrophic” for the city,causing a loss of revenue that would force Khan to slash investment in service upgrades and line extensions and lessen the potential for increasing house building as a result. Khan has argued that the cost of his plans would be comfortably met by a combination of efficiencies and a more ambitious exploitation of Transport for London’s (TfL) land assets and saleable skills.
This argument has been a novel feature of the contest. Normally, it’s Tories who bang on about “waste” in public bodies, and particularly TfL which for years they routinely called “bloated.” Now we believe Goldsmith railing against cuts to TfL’s budgets - which is what a fares freeze would amount to,if compared with fares increases - and we believe Khan calling TfL “good, but flabby.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com