On 1 Jan, 14:08, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:56:34 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a
surprise - the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in the
burbs. Fantastic. Good to know the people running public transport
really have the public interest at heart.

This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency from
around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.

Except, of course, that isn't what was organised. *All tubes, DLR, buses
and trams were free from 2345 to 0430. One NR line - Southern (Victoria
to East Croydon) I think - also ran free. All the other NR lines had to
be paid for as I believe the subsidy was withdrawn as a result of TfL
budget cuts.


It was always a fairly empty gesture anyway, if it was applied
correctly, given that most people would have travelcards or would have
got returns which were a few p more than a single, plus the lack of
checks anyway.

So if it really does affect the budget, I wonder who was claiming what
about the cost of it? Was it NR effectively scamming TfL about some
theoretical amount of revenue that would never have been collected in
practice?

In future, it really could make a difference, because PAYG involves
abolishing day returns and funds are collected without staff.