Transport for London could be nationalised
Roundel at the Entrance at London Victoria station on the Underground Transport for London
UK government bail-outs for Transport for London could soon come to an abrupt end, with the entire integrated transit network taken into public ownership. That’s the stark possibility as the capital’s commuter network continues to make significant losses, and the national government in Westminster grows more reluctant to fund its neighbour at the mayor’s office on the opposite bank of the Thames.
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A throwaway article with no real research put into it. Just repeats the same tired government attacks.
Your headline writer needs to know that this is literally the opposite of Nationalisation. It’s pPivatisation.
“London has enjoyed a high-level of integrated and subsidised public transport” It used to until the Conservative government under David Cameron removed those subsidies once the Conservative incumbent was unelected from the Mayors office.
London Transport has been publicly run and managed since 1933 so nationalisation is the wrong term here. What you mean is a coup by the Government to punish London for imagined transgressions