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Mayor warns Metrolink is on funding 'cliff edge' - while London gets 'huge' £1.6bn bailout for public transport

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hereMr Burnham also highlighted the 'unfair' nature of funding - with bus and rail operators receiving full packages to see them through the pandemic, while authority-run services were left to make up shortfalls and receive only short-term bailouts.He and Liverpool City mayor Steve Rotheram told a transport select committee that funding needed to be 'brought under one' roof so leaders could integrate funding over buses, trams and other modes to 'build back public transport'.Mr Burnham said the crisis was an opportunity for the Government to prove they were serious about 'levelling up' the disparities between London and the rest of the country.He said: "London has had a subsidy for a decade.

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