Sentences with phrase «rate rail fare»

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Put simply, rail fares have been too expensive for low earners for a long time — to make them affordable enough so that poorer adults use them at a similar rate to rich adults would require major cuts to fares, and therefore a major increase to taxpayer subsidy.

«If schemes like Crossrail, the bringing of local rail services under London's control with London Overground, Tube modernisation and the management of our buses go wrong, they are so large they will create not only a transport but a financial disaster for London with huge rises in fares and business rates.»

The truth is people in the North West have had to put up with paying first - class rail fares for third - rate rail services for far too long.

The committee's analysis of the Chancellor's budget called for «unfair» RPI measures used to calculate interest rates on student loans, rail fares and air passenger duty (APD) to be ditched.

* A small plurality - 39 % to 32 % favoured an increase in rail fares to an increase in the basic rate of tax from 20p to 21p.