RAIL commuters face a four per cent rise in the cost of season tickets.
The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) is set to confirm it is abandoning a cap on season ticket pricing which kept increases to inflation minus one per cent.
The new cap will be raised to inflation plus one per cent.
Rail watchdogs condemned the move, saying passengers were being forced to pay for the industry’s failure to control modernisation costs.
The four per cent rise will take place next January.
Last week the SRA published a report showing rail passengers were facing higher fares, despite reduced services and worsening punctuality.
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