[armaanbanerjee]

Whilst the Elizabeth line makes a lot of money, TFL doesn't and currently is missing around half its funding needed for maintenance, trying to justify new benches on a line that's only 2 years old would be hard to justify when other parts of the network need funding much more that the core stations on the Elizabeth line

[rswail]

It's arguable that it shouldn't make a lot of money, but it should be properly funded.

What funds TfL is basically fares and city and central government taxes. Ideally the taxes fund the improvements and fares fund the operations.

But fares are down since COVID, while the service kept operating.