The Way Out
London Transport, the world's biggest urban transport system, moves six million passengers a day. Thirty-five years ago it was swift, cheap and efficient. Now it is widely regarded as being unreliable, expensive and slow. Today 80 per cent of LT's running costs are paid for with fares ' extracted ' from passengers, against a mere 20 per cent subsidy from the GLC. In other European cities these figures are reversed. Low fares encourage passengers and high subsidies allow investment. But if I,T received a higher subsidy, where would it go? What has LT got up its sleeve to make the buses run on time and the trains more frequent?
Narrator MARTIN JARVIS
Film editor ALAN LEWENS
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Written and produced by PATRICK UDEN