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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

Ministers holding gun to TfL’s head on increasing Tube fares, claims Mayor Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan has vowed to keep fares “as cheap as possible”

(Picture: PA Wire)

Sadiq Khan has vowed to keep fares “as cheap as possible” to prevent driving more Londoners back to their cars when he sets the annual increase for bus and Tube travel.

The Mayor is due to decide over the next few weeks by how much to increase the cost of Transport for London fares, after being told by the Government that these must, “as a minimum”, match the 3.8 per cent annual rise being imposed on national rail services from March.

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