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RAIL privateers are receiving 22 times as much financial support from the government as is being offered to publicly owned Transport for London (TfL), RMT said yesterday.
The transport union accused the government of mounting a “politically motivated attack” on TfL by planning to pay it only £1 per passenger journey while private train operators receive £22 for each passenger journey.
Chiltern Railways, whose services run through Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency, will be paid more than £20 per passenger journey, RMT said, while Transpennine Express, running through Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Richmond constituency in North Yorkshire, stands to get £36.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: “It cannot be right that Londoners are being threatened with 22 times less funding per passenger journey than the private train companies.”
He said that London’s “massive transport network” needed funding equal to that given to the private sector.
“Instead, we’re seeing a politically motivated attack which is starving the capital of transport funding and piling on the pain for ordinary Londoners and small businesses,” he added.
