Taken for a Ride: Taxpayers, Trains and Hm Treasury

by Don Riley and Fred Harrison

There are few books that can claim to have changed the transport policy for London and the UK. Don Riley's Taken for a Ride is one such book. First published in 2001, a year after the opening of the then controversial Jubilee Line Extension, in London, Riley documented how new transport systems deliver extraordinary profits. As Taken for a Ride explains, taxpayers provide the funds from which private landowners profit. Taken for a Ride has been fully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191651703X
• ISBN13: 9781916517035
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
• Length: 134 Pages