In the City AM paper today one of the train companies said that the long standing policy of the govt is to shift increasing amounts of the funding from the tax payer to the person using the transport. (to be fair the last Labour govt was not a lot different). Plus there is a lot of investment partly cos gots of both hues spentr ****all on transport in the 70s and 80s.

Its a miserable policy - for Z1 to Z3 you will end up with annual season tickets approaching £1.5k in a couple of years and for longer commutes £4k to £5k a year. All of which makes London increasingly more expensive to live in.

Sadly, I don't see this policy changing for the forseeabe future.