February 3rd - TfL Tries To Mind The Gap

Transport for London has announced in their latest financial update that the black hole in London's transport network has ballooned to £1.5 billion, mainly due to the pandemic. Just as London's network begins to show the strain of this, bosses are in a battle to get more money from the central government and are looking at a lot of different ways to claw back some of the money. Plans to introduce a road user charge, hike up council tax and extend a congestion charging zone will not be enough to balance the books, TfL board papers have revealed and talk of 'managed decline' as well as more off-the-wall plans such as closing tube lines for some days of the week are all being talked of. I take a look at what's going on.Of course this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at independent.co.uk/newsletters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.