Rail season tickets burst through the £5,000 a year barrier
Rail passengers across the country – including those using popular Home Counties routes – are facing the highest increases in a generation, at a time when many people's salaries are failing to keep pace with inflation.
The biggest season ticket hikes are being imposed by Southeastern, which carries 120,000 commuters a day into central London from East Sussex and Kent.
Commuters travelling to St Pancras from Hastings, Rye and Tonbridge will have to find £5,192 a year – equivalent to a fifth of the national average salary.
This is the first time that any standard class season tickets in the South East have broken through the £5,000 milestone.
The Government allowed Southeastern to push up fares by an average of 7.8 per cent – three per cent above July’s Retail Price Index. But this masked higher increases approaching 13 per cent on some routes.
More from the source: Rail season tickets burst through the £5,000 a year barrier - Telegraph
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Yes that scary deflation that Mr King was warning about is going to get us all in 2011
Rail passengers across the country – including those using popular Home Counties routes – are facing the highest increases in a generation, at a time when many people's salaries are failing to keep pace with inflation.
The biggest season ticket hikes are being imposed by Southeastern, which carries 120,000 commuters a day into central London from East Sussex and Kent.
Commuters travelling to St Pancras from Hastings, Rye and Tonbridge will have to find £5,192 a year – equivalent to a fifth of the national average salary.
This is the first time that any standard class season tickets in the South East have broken through the £5,000 milestone.
The Government allowed Southeastern to push up fares by an average of 7.8 per cent – three per cent above July’s Retail Price Index. But this masked higher increases approaching 13 per cent on some routes.
More from the source: Rail season tickets burst through the £5,000 a year barrier - Telegraph
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Yes that scary deflation that Mr King was warning about is going to get us all in 2011
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