After ending the year trying to get permission to watch all of our online movements and slyly raising tuition fees, our lovely Government have decided to begin 2017 by making things just a little bit more long for us, yet again.
Despite all the chaos going on with Southern rail strikes recently, rail passengers are set to face higher fares all over the UK as the average train ticket price is set to rise by 2.3%. The government justified the rise by saying that it’s going to give us the biggest modernisation of the rail system in 100 years, but protesters said the rise was a “kick in the teeth” particularly after months of strikes and disruption.
The BBC’s transport correspondent reported that the rises are due to the government’s changing of the proportion of rail bills paid for by passengers. Previously around 50% of rail bills were paid for by us, leaving the other portion to be paid for by the government, but today passengers pay near 70%. Some tickets have risen by 40% in just 10 years.
Peak times.