Use taxes to subsidise transport in London, the city with the best public transport in the UK? Not a policy that’s going to win a lot of votes, therefore low priority for politicians.
london also has much higher fares
Come on Reeves, gizza Bakerloo Extension.
But but but my friend from Buttfuckington-On-Nowhere says London gets all the money and it’s really unfair that there isn’t a railway directly from his house on the moor to his office?
This image is 5 years old now iirc. Would be interesting to do an updated one if I was home. Easily done though if you want to post an updated on instead of this same one posted by people all the time. Just search tfl financial report, find the latest year, and it’ll have the breakdown. Might even be more reliant on fares now.
Where does ad revenue fall in this chart?
What are our taxes for? Paying off country debt or paying boat people free accommodation?
Worth noting is that Tokyo Metro owns and develops real estate around its subway station which does help its finance.
As for the situation in London, surely the current model need to change because feels like we are just taping over funding issues and kicking the can down the road.
What’s the point of this unless you break down the other/subsidy line. If that line is 100% local taxes nobody gives a crap other than the people paying the taxes or the fares locally. If its national everyone gets an opinion.
‘Other’ does a lot of heavy lifting. Hong Kong’s MTR is a major property developer.
New York needs to sort it out with passenger fares
New to the UK and how we routinely screw public transport users?
Interesting that Tokyo Metro was left out of comparison given it is of near comparable size to the London Underground but wholly funded by passenger fares without subsidy.
London still has higher subsidies than most of the UK.
one of these is not like the other
Buenos Aires: 99.999999999% subsidies
Cost of operation and personal costs would be interesting
This is how it is in the UK: pay your taxes for public services, and then pay again to actually use the service. Next they will be means testing the NHS and pensions….
As Singaporean who’s lived in London, I don’t think this is entirely accurate. I think passenger fares make sure up a large part of the running and maintenance of our public transport. The transport operators are also major landlords. New infrastructure spending is bankrolled by the state however.
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Use taxes to subsidise transport in London, the city with the best public transport in the UK? Not a policy that’s going to win a lot of votes, therefore low priority for politicians.
london also has much higher fares
Come on Reeves, gizza Bakerloo Extension.
But but but my friend from Buttfuckington-On-Nowhere says London gets all the money and it’s really unfair that there isn’t a railway directly from his house on the moor to his office?
This image is 5 years old now iirc. Would be interesting to do an updated one if I was home. Easily done though if you want to post an updated on instead of this same one posted by people all the time. Just search tfl financial report, find the latest year, and it’ll have the breakdown. Might even be more reliant on fares now.
Where does ad revenue fall in this chart?
What are our taxes for? Paying off country debt or paying boat people free accommodation?
Worth noting is that Tokyo Metro owns and develops real estate around its subway station which does help its finance.
As for the situation in London, surely the current model need to change because feels like we are just taping over funding issues and kicking the can down the road.
What’s the point of this unless you break down the other/subsidy line. If that line is 100% local taxes nobody gives a crap other than the people paying the taxes or the fares locally. If its national everyone gets an opinion.
‘Other’ does a lot of heavy lifting. Hong Kong’s MTR is a major property developer.
New York needs to sort it out with passenger fares
New to the UK and how we routinely screw public transport users?
Interesting that Tokyo Metro was left out of comparison given it is of near comparable size to the London Underground but wholly funded by passenger fares without subsidy.
London still has higher subsidies than most of the UK.
one of these is not like the other
Buenos Aires: 99.999999999% subsidies
Cost of operation and personal costs would be interesting
This is how it is in the UK: pay your taxes for public services, and then pay again to actually use the service. Next they will be means testing the NHS and pensions….
As Singaporean who’s lived in London, I don’t think this is entirely accurate. I think passenger fares make sure up a large part of the running and maintenance of our public transport. The transport operators are also major landlords. New infrastructure spending is bankrolled by the state however.
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