http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116670.stm
Train companies have announced above-inflation rate fare increases.
Season tickets, saver and standard day returns will rise by 4.8% on average, says the Association of Train Operating Companies (Atoc).
Others such as cheap day returns, long-distance open and advance fares will go up by 5.4%. The increases will come into effect in the New Year.
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association said commuters travelling to London would be worst hit.
A weekly season ticket from Hayes in Kent to London will rise by 14.5% from £24.80 to £28.50.
A similar ticket from Bexleyheath into the capital will go up from £25.10 to £28.50 or 13%, and for commuters in Ashford, Kent, a London-bound journey will rise by 10.5% from £78.30 to £86.50 a week.
It seems to me that everything is "going up above the rate of inflation". Look at food prices, fuel prices, rents, etc.
It's almost as if the rate of inflation is a completely artificial government manipulated meaningless value.
Train companies have announced above-inflation rate fare increases.
Season tickets, saver and standard day returns will rise by 4.8% on average, says the Association of Train Operating Companies (Atoc).
Others such as cheap day returns, long-distance open and advance fares will go up by 5.4%. The increases will come into effect in the New Year.
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association said commuters travelling to London would be worst hit.
A weekly season ticket from Hayes in Kent to London will rise by 14.5% from £24.80 to £28.50.
A similar ticket from Bexleyheath into the capital will go up from £25.10 to £28.50 or 13%, and for commuters in Ashford, Kent, a London-bound journey will rise by 10.5% from £78.30 to £86.50 a week.
It seems to me that everything is "going up above the rate of inflation". Look at food prices, fuel prices, rents, etc.
It's almost as if the rate of inflation is a completely artificial government manipulated meaningless value.
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