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Pass is safe with us
• AS Chairman of London Councils’ cross-party Transport and Environment Committee, which operates the Freedom Pass, I can assure the capital’s older and disabled residents that there is no threat to the free travel they enjoy under the Pass.
However we are seeking to protect London’s council taxpayers from being held to ransom by Transport for London (TfL). Currently TfL can simply impose any price it wants to charge boroughs for providing the Pass if no agreement is reached with London Councils by the end of each year.
It means that negotiations with TfL are like having a gun held to one’s head. Since TfL was formed the cost of providing the Pass has rocketed by 52 per cent to £216 million.
London Councils wants this power replaced with a fairer method which would allow the scheme to be rolled on to the next year if no agreement is reached. This safeguards the scheme for London’s disabled and older residents but at a fair price.
Cllr Daniel Moylan
Chairman, London Councils’ Transport and Environment Committee |
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