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Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

24-hour Tube strikes cost TfL £13 million in lost fares

Bus queues at Liverpool Street

(Picture: Jeremy Selwyn)

The two strikes that virtually shut the Tube earlier this month cost Transport for London an estimated £13 million in lost fares, Sadiq Khan has revealed.

It came as a review of TfL’s staff pension scheme — one of the issues that sparked the first network-wide strikes in five years — found reforming it could save TfL up to £182.4 million a year.

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