On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:20:42 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
Because most bus routes are relatively short, and most bus journeys
shorter still (as progress is so slow). You can go short or long

Slow or not its just as vital for some people as the tube is for others
especially if you're making a through the suburbs journey rather than
into the city centre.

distances on the Tube -- would you prefer it if every Tube journey,
however short, cost £2.50 on Oyster, or £3.50 in cash?

Frankly yes. 2.50 sounds reasonable since as has been pointed out, most
people don't use the tube for short journeys anyway. And since LU seem
keen to make the zoning system increasingly meaningless by not allowing
people to buy only certain zone combinations anymore and are now
charging for going through zone 1 even if you go around in zone 2 say
on the NLL a lot more people would benefit than lose out I reckon.
Flat fares work in New York so they can quite easily work here.

B2003