But a campaign group states that the mayor could and should eliminate these positions completely, which makes the capital’s public transport system completely free.
London free of rates admits that abolishing train and bus tickets in London would be “drastic”, but states that it is necessary to “address climate change worldwide and air pollution locally.”
The group has said that it acknowledges that the “complete basic” of how transport for London (TFL) is funded has to change for its objective to be carried out.
Last year, the income of the rates was about 70 percent of the cash that TFL spent on the day -to -day operating costs.
But London is the atypical and not the norm in this regard. Most other important cities in the world depend much less on rates to finance daily spending.
The rates cover only one third of the operating costs in Paris, and only a quarter in New York.
Removable financing is obtained elsewhere, even local and national taxes.
In Paris, companies with 11 or more employees are subject to a payroll tax that helps finance public transport in the city.
Public transport is already completely free for the residents of the French city of Montpellier, which shows that such policy is possible, claims from London without rates.
The founder of the campaign group, Simon Pirani, said: “What we know about cities like Montpellier is that free public transport helps reduce the amount of cars on the road.
“To meet the mayor’s climatic objectives, you must start taking people out of their cars and there is a better way to do so than concentrate on giving people something like free public transport.”
Pirani, from Woolwich, added that he had noticed that in the morning, some people stay on bus 53, while others leave to board the Elizabeth line to downtown London.
“People are spending an hour and a half in the insect of the half -hour bus in the tube because it is a bit cheaper,” he explained.
“So, this is a social justice thing and a climatic thing.”
The mayor of London and TFL did not respond after being approached to comment.
Tube, Elizabeth Line and rates on the ground increased 4.6 percent in March, while bus rates frozen.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said at that time: “After the government budget, the ministers did it to ensure national funds for key transport projects in the future, TFL rates and railway rates would increase in line with railway rates.”
