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[email protected] · December 31st 09, 06:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

I hadn't appreciated what dreadful value for money the Network Card now
is given the minimum fare restrictions. I could, perhaps, understand a
peak times minimum fare but off peak? Are the trains really so full
that generating more marginal trips by offering standard discounts at
these times would be such a disaster?

It's mainly been more use from outside Greater London than within it since
the minimum weekday fare was set at £10 a few years ago. It's only ever
been usable at all after 10 am on weekdays but was good value for me, even
when I travelled to London four times or more a year for meetings. For
part time commuting its remains popular here in Cambridge. Now I have
moved to a Senior Railcard I get to work nearly an hour earlier.

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Colin Rosenstiel