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[email protected] · July 8th 11, 12:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:17:06 +0100, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

wrote:

I'm sorry but this is plainly daft for the journey you did. It is
an extremely long way round for a short cut to go from Highbury to
Putney NR via the NLL and WLL and then SWT. No one in their right
mind would take that route as a quick or effective way to travel.
There are faster routes via Zone 1 and it is an entirely reasonable
assumption that it will be the choice of almost everyone to go that
way. This is why there is only one priced route.

This argument would be more credible if there wasn't a Highbury to
Clapham not via zone 1 fare. That is the default fare too, with via
zone 1 as the alternatives.

Highbury to Clapham has a direct service at peak hours, backed up by a
same-platform interchange for the rest of the time.

Err it actually has a x15 min service in the peaks and x30 at all
other times since the May timetable change. Off peak I have certainly
seen people waiting for a direct Clapham train at places like
Brondesbury or Hampstead Heath.

Taking a longer but
direct journey on London Overground (and predecessors) has long been
recognised as quite common because it's smoother for people who aren't
in a rush and wish to avoid particularly stressful interchange
stations. But if the journey involves interchanges anyway then the
likeliehood falls away.

This pretty much sums up what I was going to say to Colin by way of
reply.

The Clapham Junction interchange to the Windsor lines is pretty easy,
especially now there are lifts.

It looks like I should have touched out and in, not at Highbury but at
Clapham Junction. It looks like the journey that far would not have
exceeded the zones 1 & 2 100 minute limit and would therefor have cost
£1.25 plus 85 p from Clapham Junction to Putney. Instead I ended up paying
£1.90 mainly thanks, I gather, to the fact that it was the only way to
credit me anything.

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Colin Rosenstiel