Roland Perry wrote:
In message , Dave Liney
writes

Why didn't someone make it a condition of national rails TOCs operating
within the Oyster area that they accept Oyster single tickets?


Oyster post-dates most of the TOCs in the London area.


The main difference here is really that the Strategic Rail Authority
controls point-to-point fares on National Rail commuter services to
London, and Transport for London has no control at all.

Therefore if TfL want to apply their fares to SRA services, they have to
"pay the difference" - which can be very expensive, since currently a
through journey using National Rail and LU is priced at LU single + NR
single, and under TfL it would just be LU single for whatever zones.

This could all change if either TfL take control of London suburban
services under their plans submitted to the rail review - or possibly if
Network Rail / the Government take on SRA responsibilities and can
therefore set fares. However I doubt the latter would happen as the
Government probably wants to increase fares anyway to help offset the
debt they could inherit from Network Rail.


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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London