lol sorry but with the greatest of respect, im not complaining about a 20% or 20p rise, so am unlikely to be upset by a further 10p.
Its not about more money than sense. More... how far could you get by other means of transport for ?1.30 ?

If im not mistaken, fares went drastically down with the introduction of the fixed price journey and the oyster card..... so the pot emptying is kind of understandable.
Add to that things like my journey yesterday with children travelling free, so a school taking up 80% of the bus, and suddenly all these lovely ideas appear to be choking off the supply of money into the companies etc to keep these things going. Someone has to pay.

The reality of it is, its not about a person in power making decision etc, its about funding a service that has recently been financially strangled.

FYI, the area of the CC that you speak of has been in force for a number of years now. And if you look at the consultation properly you will actually find that traffic has INCREASED in central london since the Western Extension was put into place... Why? Simple, because residents are entitled to 80-90% discount. Therefore where it once cost them ?8 a day to drive from West London into Central London, this was dropped to under ?1.. Cheaper than public transport, so they all started driving again.

Not expecting the country to be sugar coated after the next election, its far too much of a mess for that. But this is about London travel fares not national politics.