KEN MUST MAKE PPP WORK FOR LONDON

For immediate release 4 April 2003

TSSA General Secretary Richard Rosser said: "Although TSSA has disagreedwith PPP and campaigned against it from the outset, we hope that some realimprovement can at last be made on the Tube now that the part-privatisationprocess has been completed.

"We will be watching PPP closely to see that the 17 billion that has beenpromised goes into the system and not on bureaucracy in the way that we haveseen on the rail network as a whole.

"We also hope this will be an end to Ken Livingstone's knocking of ourmembers in London Underground management who are trying to run the networkagainst a background of years of under investment and political sniping.

"Mr Livingstone has spent too long on the sidelines carping on about theinadequacies of Tube management. This must stop as it will be his job tomake the Tube work and give Londoners what he has been promising them for solong - a world class Underground system."

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Notes to Editors
1. TSSA represents 32,000 members in administrative, clerical,managerial, professional and technical jobs in the railways, buses, theLondon Underground, the travel trade, canals, ports and ferries, and roadhaulage.