Because of interventions by the Treasury, TfL have had to put back their annual fares rise to the nineteenth of January this year. Meanwhile, the National Rail franchisees were able to raise their prices on the second of January. This has led to a "magical" two-and-a-half week period when it has been cheaper to buy a ticket to a rail station outside London from a Tube station than from the same rail station into the same tube station! This surely makes an eloquent case for a fully integrated transport system under democratic control!
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