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We’re Number One!

Price of subway fares around the world, as calculated by Treehugger:

Price of subway fares around the world, as calculated by Treehugger

Maybe Dublin’s going to sneak in from nowhere and steal our crown but we’ve probably got some whopping fare increases lined up just in case.

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4 Responses to “We’re Number One!”

  1. jack
    July 4th, 2009 10:35
    1

    this isn’t even the cash single fare, is it? this is the £2.50 maximum oyster fare.

  2. Jim
    July 4th, 2009 10:47
    2

    That’s right.

  3. tom
    July 5th, 2009 14:22
    3

    it would be interesting to see the price as a proportion of average daily wage for the city or maybe plotted against some quality of service index or something else that might make the comparison more meaningful.

  4. Jim
    July 5th, 2009 14:58
    4

    Yeah, obviously there’s lots of things affecting the cost which aren’t reflected here. If the cost of the Tube reflected a much higher quality of service that would be different, but I think it’s safe to say it doesn’t. The main underlying factor in London is the choices made over financing, i.e. going for an expensive and complicated PPP deal and relying on fares rather than subsidy to cover most of the cost. I think those were the wrong choices but that’s not to say that some of the cheaper metro systems haven’t gone too far in the other direction.

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