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County Hall in Lambeth, then home of the Greater London Council.
Fares Fair was a public policy advocated by the Labour Party administration of the Greater London Council (GLC), then led by Ken Livingstone. The policy of low public transport fares was implemented in 1981, but was later ruled to be illegal in the courts and rescinded the following year.[1]
The Fares Fair policy had widespread support among Labour London members, who viewed it as a moderate and mainstream policy; no one had ever considered the legality of the move. In the 1981 GLC election, the political moderate Andrew McIntosh led Labour to victory, but the following day he was voted out by the Labour members of the GLC and replaced by Livingstone. Proceeding with the Fares Fair policy which they had promised in their electoral manifesto, they reduced London Transport fares by 31 per cent in October 1981.[2]
The legality of the Fares Fair policy was subsequently challenged by Dennis Barkway, Conservative leader of the Bromley London Borough Council. Taking the GLC to court, Barkway argued that the citizens of the London Borough of Bromley were having to pay extra taxes for the London Underground, which did not serve the borough.[3]
^"Cut in London Transit Fares Ruled Illegal by Appeals Court". The New York Times. 11 November 1981. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018.
^"Fairer fares". The Guardian. 10 January 2000. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
^"GLC Fares Fair, Blueprint for a Green London, London's public transport". www.bilderberg.org. Archived from the original on 1 September 1999. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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withdrawn to save money following cancellation of Greater London Council's FaresFair policy; both now operated by London Overground Carpenders Park Castle...
Unlimited MetroCard option for fares within a single week (from Monday to Sunday), upon which they did not pay fares for subsequent trips. As of March...
transit lines intended to operate with fares initially start service, the organisation may elect not to collect fares for an introductory period to create...
paper tickets with higher fares. In response, Translink confirmed more stations would begin selling the go card. Translink fares continued a trend of "planned"...
Hall (directly opposite Parliament), as well as the FaresFair policy of reducing Tube and bus fares using government subsidies, and meeting Sinn Féin MP...
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fare-setting. Municipal bus departments were reconstituted as arm's length companies governed by companies law. Low fares policies such as FaresFair...
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only for SQUARE but also in the NURSE set, so that fur is homophonous with fair as [feː] - see square-nurse merger. The vowel is not necessarily as front/close...
launches 'FairFares' NYC program for low-income New Yorkers". QNS.com. Retrieved January 9, 2019. Fitzsimmons, Emma G. (February 27, 2019). "Subway Fares Are...
subsequently doubled and London Underground fares increased by 91%. The two central area zones were retained and the fares to all other stations were restructured...
the standard fares but offer no off-peak fares and are more expensive than the equivalent standard fare. The following tables list Opal fares: ^= $2.50 cap...
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