Fare hikes for you, bonuses for them: TfL’s pay boom is leaving Londoners worse off |
By Anne Strickland
Londoners are being asked to dig deeper into their pockets yet again.
In March of this year, tube fares will go up by 5.8 per cent due to it being one of the conditions of the £2.2bn funding deal that TfL agreed with the government.
But will this in any way fix and prevent services from breaking down and making the tube feel more reliable? I doubt it.
And yet, behind the scenes, Transport for London is quietly presiding over one of the biggest pay booms in the public sector.
New TaxPayers’ Alliance analysis shows that the number of TfL staff receiving at least £100,000 a year in total remuneration has exploded by 189 per cent in just two years.
In 2022-23, there were 766. By........