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Who’s right in the London v Mets bus funding debate?

Peter Nash, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10
26 July 2013
 

Sir Peter Hendy’s letter (LTT 12 Jul) refuting Julian Peddle’s statement (LTT 14 Jun) that London receives six times the level of bus subsidy as the metropolitan areas had me reaching for my transport statistics to see who was right.

Let’s start with Sir Peter’s claim that public subsidy per passenger in 2011/12 was 36p per passenger in London and averaged 52p per passenger journey in the other metropolitan areas. Tables BUS 0103 and BUS0502 of the DfT’s transport...

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