Tube fare hikes have cost Londoners an extra £2,683 each, a new report shows
Talk about a top-up: Londoners have each spent an additional £2,683 using the London Underground since 2008, thanks to fare hikes.
The team behind Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan crunched the numbers, finding commuters going between Zone 1 and Zone 6 have been charged an extra £2,683 for their monthly travel cards since 2008, compared to a £2,076 increase for Zone 1-3 travel cards and a £1,649 jump for monthly bus passes.
Khan said today that the current mayor Boris Johnson should implement a fare freeze in London and to introduce a new "Hopper" ticket with a single charge for multi-leg bus journeys.
Khan has said if he is elected, he will implement a full four-year freeze in cash terms across all Transport for London (TfL) fares and introduce the "Hopper" ticket.
While TfL is bracing for its budget to be cut off the back of the government's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) later this month, Khan says he would pay for his proposals through efficiency savings within TfL.