{"id":594918,"date":"2025-11-26T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/594918\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:49:32","slug":"will-tube-fares-in-london-still-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/594918\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Tube Fares in London Still Rise?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might have heard the news that next year, for the first time in 30 years,\u00a0rail fares across England will be staying exactly the same<\/a>.\u00a0 The government announced that it would be putting a freeze on regulated fares across the country to \u2018ease the pressure on household finances and make travelling to work, school or to visit friends and family that bit easier\u2019.\u00a0But\u00a0that freeze won\u2019t apply\u00a0all rail fares.<\/p>\n

Great news, right? Well, while it\u2019s a good\u00a0thing for anyone who regularly commutes into London from cities like Milton Keynes, Reading, Bath or Woking, there may not be benefits for Londoners themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The price of public transport across London is overseen by the Mayor and City Hall, not central government.\u00a0The Mayor is yet to reveal\u00a0any updates on what tube and train fares Londoners will be paying next year, but it\u2019s not looking promising.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Right now,\u00a0City Hall\u00a0says that it\u2019s\u00a0working to understand the implications of the national freeze.\u00a0There are worries that the cap on regulated fares will put the burden on unregulated fares to cover any\u00a0increase in operation costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On top of that, back in June an edict from the\u00a0government\u00a0told\u00a0TfL that in return for a \u00a32.2bn boost, it should increase prices by the RPI rate of inflation plus one percent every year until 2030.<\/a>\u00a0At the moment,\u00a0it\u2019s assumed that the rise in 2026, which would come into effect in March, will be around 5.8 percent. And it\u2019s likely that if tube fares increase, so will the price of Travelcards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hina Bokhari, leader of the Lib-Dem group on the London Assembly, told the Standard<\/a>: \u2018If ministers freeze fares everywhere except London, that isn’t policy, it’s a punishment beating.<\/p>\n

\u2018Londoners already face higher living costs and deeper levels of poverty, yet ministers appear to want to single out London for inflation-busting hikes. This isn’t levelling the country up, it’s levelling the capital down.\u2019<\/p>\n

For now, we\u2019re just going have to wait with baited breath \u2013 TfL normally announces its fare changes for the next year in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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