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Bus users face price hike
Express & Star 2 Jun 10
Bus passengers will have to fork out up to an extra £1 for tickets from this weekend when National Express West Midlands, which runs 80 per cent of services in the region, increases fares from Sunday.
The rise comes after fares went up by 10 per cent, more than twice the rate of inflation, in January 2009. Today Kevin Chapman, group chairman of the West Midlands Campaign for Better Transport, criticised the latest price increases as “unfair and sneaky”.
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