MAYOR HITS OUT AT TRAVELMASTER PRICE HIKE

Published 2 February 2022 at 10:49am

Mayor of South Yorkshire, Dan Jarvis, said: “It beggars belief that the TravelMaster board are planning to hike fares by 5% at a time when we are working hard to get passengers back on to public transport as an important part of our region’s recovery.

“This move will hit the pockets of people that rely on services hardest and runs directly against the transformational change operators say they want to see. The operators need to put passengers before short-term profits and work with us to tackle the major challenges we face, rather than locking in more decline.

"Having received so much support throughout the pandemic, it is time they take some responsibility for helping us to get South Yorkshire’s public transport system back to a much better state.”