Boroughs must wait for Covid-19 Freedom Pass savings

Funding

London boroughs will have to wait until 2021/22 for Covid-19 savings in the concessionary travel reimbursement they pay Transport for London. 

Boroughs are facing huge funding shortfalls in 2020/21 because of the additional costs and income losses resulting from Covid-19. This has prompted councillors to question why they are continuing to pay TfL for concessionary travel made by Freedom Pass holders at pre-Covid-19 trip rates. 

London Councils’ chief contracts officer, Stephen...

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