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Free travel plans take a knock
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IN BOTH London and Liverpool, moves towards providing free travel were halted this week. The London Labour Party has abandoned free travel as a policy objective, while Liverpool's free city-centre service has not justified itself.
Plans to introduce flat fares and eventual free travel on London Transport services have been abandoned by the London Labour Party.
Scrapped, too, are the party's plans for open-ended rate subsidies to keep fares down. This was made clear by the party's refusal at its annual conference to endorse a vote of censure on the GLC for increasing fares.
In a speech to delegates, GLC policy and resources chairman Mr Illtyd Harrington said that if prices were to be held down after next week's rise, then LT would be .€.130m in the red in the year 1976/ 77.
A flat fare of 9p would be necessary for LT to break even, added Mr Harrington.
The Liverpool city-centre free bus experiment is to be abandoned from next Monday and the service will revert to the normal City Ride flat fare of 5p.
Initial results of a survey of passengers using the "free ride bus service indicate that it attracted very few new passengers. Although the passenger loading jumped from 8,000 to 18,000 when the off-peak free services were in operation, a spokesman for the undertaking has now said: "It rather looked as though existing passengers were making more journeys, rather than the service persuading people to travel by bus."