Subsidy for TfL bus services is £600m a year!

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RE: Subsidy for TfL bus services is £600m a year!

(15/04/2017 14:59)knutstransport Wrote:  DfT figures for average subsidy per passenger journey (2014/2015):
London - 23.5p
English metropolitan areas - 12.1p
English non-metropolitan areas - 15.0p

So in another average city the subsidy per journey is just over half of London's...
Last time I went to London half the buses were empty at around 11am and that was right in the centre (9,14,19,22,38: pretty much every service had 6-10 passengers). Note that this was in both directions.
Where I commute to, around 2 hours from London, lots of services are operated as frequent as other services in London and tend to have more passengers for most of the day, with almost every double decker bus being full during peak times!