Darren Johnson will use next weeks Mayor’s Question Time to interrogate the Mayor as to why his new transport plan includes above inflation increases in the average fare for each journey, despite the cancellation of a number of important public transport schemes.
At the same time as cancelling six major public transport schemes and a number of significant public space projects, the Mayor is planning to take an extra £1.5bn from fare payers in 2017 compared to 2009.
"A detailed look at this plan reveals that Londoners are set to pay more and get less under the Mayor’s new public transport proposals. Fare rises are never great, but if you can see real investments being made they are at least easier to take. This Mayor appears to think that it is acceptable to cut investment but still plan fare hikes.
"Over the life of the plan, the projected growth in fares income outstrips the predicted number of extra journeys, leaving each public transport journey costing about 30p more. What makes it worse is the fact that these rises are on top of fare increases due in January, before this plan even takes effect."