I didn't know crimes would cost this much....
Crimes on public transport in England 'cost £1.5bn'
Crimes on public transport in England cost an estimated £1.5bn a year, according to government figures.
The total is calculated from the cost of repairing vandalism, the money spent taking alleged offenders through the legal system and spending on measures intended to prevent crime.
There were more than 77,000 reported and recorded cases of crime on railways and London Underground over 12 months.
And on buses and trams, more than 131,000 offences occurred.
But these figures - for the financial year 2006-7 - more than double when
There were more than half a million crimes
on public transport in a year, according to the figures
estimates of unreported crimes such as fare evasion are added.
When included in the calculations, the rail total reaches 197,000, while the bus total rises to 308,000.
The total cost of crime on rail networks, including the Tube and Docklands Light Railway in London, reached an estimated £927m, with buses and trams adding £574m to the total.
