Commenting on the latest cable car passenger figures for the Thames cable car which show that weekly passenger figures are dramatically lower than a year ago Caroline Pidgeon AM, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group said:
“If there was a bonfire of Mayoral vanity schemes the cable car deserves to be put at the very top.”
“Despite Transport for London continually spending public money advertising and promoting the Thames cable car it is crystal clear that a decreasing number of people want to pay so much to use it.
“It is time the Mayor and TfL admitted that they are failing to run it either as a successful tourist attraction or as a serious form of public transport.
“If the cable car is to have any success in the long term it should either be run and operated as a privately run tourist attraction, or instead operated as an integral form of public transport, where people with a travelcard or a relevant pass can use it for free and the standard Oyster fare is no more than a bus fare.”
You can read coverage in the Evening Standard where Caroline discusses figures showing that only four regular commuters use the service.