On Feb 6, 9:13*pm, Ganesh Sittampalam
wrote:

Isn't it cheaper for the operator if your journey has one leg rather
than two? There's overhead from getting on/off - people getting on
buses, interchange capacity at stations, etc. It seems like a good
thing to me to encourage people at the margins to not change

People don't generally choose to change. They change because there is
not a feasible through journey opportunity. That is in its own a
penalty.

There should not be any fee for changing; it should be one transport
system made up of all the modes, just as the Tube is.

If particular interchanges are overloaded because of *bus* traffic,
the route network needs redesigning. If it's because of train or Tube
traffic, perhaps the zone map needs playing with to encourage
"optimal" changes. But certainly not to discourage them.

Neil