* UK - The rise and rise of bus fares . . and the drop in users
Passengers are paying three times as much to use the bus than they were 20 years agoLiverpool,UK -The Liverpool Echo, by Nick Coligan -Oct 22 2007: -- ... The average cost of a peak fare has rocketed from 70p in 1986 to £2.10 today – an increase of 200%... The rise is way above the rate of inflation and compares with an average national climb over two decades of 50%... The ECHO can reveal the figures on the 21st anniversary of the deregulation of buses, which took responsibility for running the network away from councils and gave it to private firms...
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