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Business Daily: Cost of living: Transport

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Cost of living: Transport

23/01/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Cost of living: Transport

How is the cost of living crisis affecting our transport systems?

Delays, cancellations, schedule changes, staff shortages, strikes: How is the cost of living affecting our public transport systems?

In this first episode of our second series on the cost of living, Business Daily's Leanna Byrne looks into the areas of our lives that are costing us the most. 

Today we focus on our public transport systems. Figures from Statista, a market and consumer data platform, puts Auckland, New Zeland as the third most expensive city for public transport, we hear from Jon Reeves who is National Co-Ordinator and Co-Founder of the Public Transport Users Association there.

When the cost of living rises, it rises for everyone. So those working in the transport sector want pay rises to reflect that. Anna Jane Hunter, partner at Winder Phillips Associates, tells Business Daily that there’s a lot of systemic issues in the UK’s transport sector that have only just bubbled to the surface again after two years of us staying at home and not using public transport.

We speak to Gregor Kolbe, who works on transport and consumer politics for the Federation of German Consumer Organisations. Over the summer, Germany encouraged people to use public transport by actually reducing the cost of transport. But prices are back to normal levels now. 

Presenter/producer: Leanna Byrne
Image: Passengers at Kings Cross Station in London/ Credit: EPA

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