MP to fight rail fare increases (From Daily Echo)
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MP to fight rail fare increases
4:54pm Wednesday 5th September 2012 in News
MP to fight rail fare increases
Southampton MP John Denham is rallying fellow Hampshire MPs in the fight against huge rail fare hikes.
As reported by the Daily Echo last month, commuters will face a higher than expected 6.2 per cent hike in the average fare.
A Winchester season ticket is likely to rise by £1,275 to £5,153 between 2011 and 2015.
An annual pass between Southampton and London is expected to be as much as £5,733 by 2015.
Today Labour will be calling an opposition day debate in Parliament on the price rises.
The debate will press the Government to restore the one per cent above inflation cap on annual fare rises for 2013 and 2014, and to ban train operators from increasing fares beyond that strict limit.
Mr Denham said: “Hampshire commuters greatly benefit the economy of this country, and their MPs ought to be standing up for them.”
Comments(4)
james47
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7:02pm Wed 5 Sep 12
“Rail fares rise by up to three times inflation”, The Independent, 7 February 2005
more info:
www.parliament.uk/br
iefing-papers/SN0190
4.pdf
geoff51
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8:29pm Wed 5 Sep 12
Shoong
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10:14am Thu 6 Sep 12
Paramjit Bahia says...
5:38pm Wed 5 Sep 12
But why has he forgotten commuters from other areas? Surely they also contribute their bit, and are also victims of this train robbery by privateers like people from Hampshire.
I have no doubt when he will be speaking somewhere else he won’t forget to delete Hampshire on his laptop's screen and replace it with name of that area, just like he and his NuLabour Party when in power forgot to re-nationalise train industry.