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Is this the end of the line for public transport?

20 August 2020

10:10 PM

20 August 2020

10:10 PM

News that rail fares are to rise by 1.6 per cent in January, and public transport fares in London by 2.6 per cent, would normally be met with outrage – how dare they jack up the fares again when the trains are late and I can’t get a seat. Yet this time around the news has hardly raised a whimper.

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