On Dec 7, 8:10*pm, "solar penguin"
wrote:
Add to that the fact with Travelcards instead of normal seasons, you're
forced into paying extra for availability on other modes of transport,
etc. that 99% of the time you're just not going to be using, and it
becomes even less sensible. *(Well, I suppose that might be sensible,
convenient etc. for you, if and only if you routinely travel on many
different modes of transport. *But for the rest of us, it just plain
isn't.)

But who doesn't? I mean, who doesn't go out at weekends or evenings,
who doesn't vary their route to work based on whether there are delays
and if so on what mode, whether it's raining and how tired you are
(for nearer-to-home-but-less-convenient-journey versus longer-walk-
direct-journey versus bus), on whether they're in their normal office
or a site somewhere, on whether they've stayed the night at home or at
a friend's or partner's place, on a million other factors...?

Across London (and this is true even in Tube-less SE London), there
are a huge number of alternative transport modes, be they bus, train
or Tube, that you'll certainly want to use when things go a bit wrong,
which is fairly often, and that you'll often want to use even when
they don't.

If LU sold point-to-point seasons and I'd bought one when I last
renewed, I'd've had to get it refunded twice - once for a move of
house and once for a move of my company's offices, both of which were
forced on me by external factors rather than my whim. And that's even
before any of the circumstances mentioned above.

(as it happens, one possible route to work for me from my current home
to my current work - and the one I'd expected when moving to take most
often - would be covered by a slightly-cheaper-than-Travelcard NR
point-to-point season. If I'd decided to go with that, then I'd be
utterly shafted at the moment thanks to the superb work of FCC and its
drivers. And I'd have to pay a quid every time I went for the bus to
the station instead of a 15-minute walk).

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John Band
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