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Post by Dstock7080 on Dec 20, 2022 12:11:25 GMT
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Post by brigham on Dec 22, 2022 8:40:10 GMT
So who IS in charge, then? |
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Post by Chris M on Dec 22, 2022 10:09:03 GMT
Ultimately, the Treasury is in charge.
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Post by jimbo on Dec 22, 2022 11:11:33 GMT
Perhaps they could not find a sponsor this year?
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Post by Chris M on Dec 22, 2022 21:02:47 GMT
It's been a few years since there has been a sponsor I think, so this is quite likely. Previous times there hasn't been a sponsor TfL have funded it themselves, but TfL's finances are not presently in the best of health.
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Post by Chris L on Dec 23, 2022 21:28:21 GMT
It's been a few years since there has been a sponsor I think, so this is quite likely. Previous times there hasn't been a sponsor TfL have funded it themselves, but TfL's finances are not presently in the best of health. There are costs in charging on the night. Ticket machines have to be working and somebody has to be around to look after them. I worked on getting a poster together for the first time free travel was given. It involved borrowing a model Routemaster from Chiswick and a model Tube train from Acton to allow the advertising agency to wrap them in Christmas paper and photograph the end result. (The original idea was to wrap full size vehicles.) At this time there were cash fares on buses and more coins in Tube ticket machines. It was realised that it cost more to count them than was made. |
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Post by Chris M on Dec 23, 2022 22:53:43 GMT
Cash is much less of an issue these days, but the political optics of charging or not charge are much more of one (I shall refrain from saying more due to the apolitical nature of this forum)
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Post by 35b on Dec 24, 2022 10:27:20 GMT
Cash is much less of an issue these days, but the political optics of charging or not charge are much more of one (I shall refrain from saying more due to the apolitical nature of this forum) And therefore, with cash so much less of an issue, the economic benefits of running for free are much less in favour of TfL. After all, staff will have to be on duty regardless. |
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Post by xtmw on Dec 21, 2023 17:07:42 GMT
Once again, free travel will not be available on New Years Eve
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