On 05/02/2014 16:01, Recliner wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:02:13 on
Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Paul Corfield remarked:

this is a "must win" dispute for TfL or else they are
in dire trouble in a couple of years time.

Some figures from the news today: the strike has cost £250m and the
projected savings are £50m a year.

I assume that projected cost is to the customers and London business in
general, not TfL, which probably profits from the strike (saved wages, much
higher bus revenues, no refund on Travel cards or season tickets).


I demur - the lost revenue from all those Tube journeys that never were
will be very substantial. The extra planning, extra buses, and extra
staffing (if only those office and managerial staff who would normally
be doing something else, something that mostly presumably still needs to
be done) doesn't come for free.