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Old August 3rd 16, 10:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Keygo to expand


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at
02:50:58 on Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Matthew Dickinson
remarked:

Keygo is set to expand to cover Thameslink up to Bedford and Great
Northern
as far as Huntingdon this autumn. There are also plans to expand its
coverage to all TfL services.

https://www.itso.org.uk/wp-content/u...2016-FINAL.pdf


Are they rebranding the card? (From theKey to keyGo; with a side measure
of PAYG)

"In the autumn, keyGo will extend to stations in London and all of its
Great Northern and Thameslink routes - providing coverage from Brighton to
Huntingdon."

A nice bit of doublespeak there - last time I looked the GN route went all
the way to Peterborough. So when they say "all GN and Thameslink routes"
they mean "... but only at stations we can be arsed to equip, thus
breaking one of our franchise commitments".


surely the problem with Peterborough is having to avoid the problem of
people using Main line trains and then toughing out as if they have used a
stopping train (which I believe attracts a lower fare)

tim