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MORKERS the line - and so will 6,000 railworkers this year.
New recruitment has been frozen for several months, fares have sky high, passenger and freight trains gone result of government policies.
MARTIN EADY, president IF LABOUR wins the Greater London Council in May, immediately Transport fares by 25 per cent. The National Union of Railwaymen supports this policy.
• An underground journey in London costs three times more per mile than a Metro journey in Paris.
• In the 1970s, £2bn was spent on public transport in Paris - four times the amount London Transport spent in the same period. Since 1970 more money has been spent on public transport in Paris than in the whole of Britain.
• In real terms, the average journey in Paris on public transport now costs half as much as it did 20 years ago.
Paris is now carrying a fifth more passengers than it was five years ago. Since 1970 more money has been spent on public transport in Paris than in NUR's London district council, London Transport and PETE GRANT, ASLEF, Willesden branch look at why rail is in this situation, what the unions are dothe whole of Britain reduce London travelling:
Which was due to comi • Since 1976 fares on the Underground have increased by over 300 per cent. In the same period, GLC financial support for London Transport has decreased by a third.
• In the last ten years, the number of passengers - by tube, down 15 per cent - by bus, down 30 per cent - by car, up 17 per cent • In Sweden last year when rail fares were cut by 30 per cehire passengers ror easeengers has in creased follow- passengers increased by 14 per cent. In South ing the freezing of fares. And this year not one Metro train will be more than three London Transport's 1933 stock was withdrawn.
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