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[email protected] · September 26th 16, 10:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Charles Ellson) wrote:

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:18:11 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 09:10:30 on Mon, 26 Sep
2016, tim... remarked:
"Londoners won't pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than
they do today."

Londoners don't only use trains where TfL sets the fares.

Not all the passengers are Londoners either but it seems to be one of
several places where the description "people" is displaced by a
presumption that strangers have all stayed on their own side of the
boundary.

Presumably that's just referring to Oyster fares, on the assumption
that no Londoner is stupid enough to pay cash fares, but some non
Londoners do (and then go on social media and complain about London's
fares)

Some Oyster fares are based on National Rail fares for the route. Such
as Vauxhall to Waterloo direct (where iirc it's more than going on an
indirect tube-only route).

Some DC line fares are cheaper as they don't directly copy the Oyster
structure, mainly WRT peak fares. It will be interesting to see what
happens with Bushey and Watford High Street (zone 8) when the Met.
Line gets diverted into Watford Junction ("Special fares apply" -
north of the zone 8 boundary) from Watford (zone 7).

At present Euston-Watford Junction fares are set, not by London Overground,
but by London Midland. Is that going to change when LU trains arrive there?

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Colin Rosenstiel