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Neil Williams · October 10th 05, 05:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:25 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

Except that for them it is the only ticketing choice

No, it isn't. There is a wide array of day, season and single
ticketing, though all of it is interavailable and identically-priced
on all modes. That's a true Verbundtarif, and something London (and
all the provincial cities - though it'll take longer with the bus
deregulation issue) really should be aiming at.

After all, why should a person who is disadvantaged by not having a
direct Tube service, and therefore requires two buses and a Tube
journey, be penalised over someone whose journey of an identical
length only requires one Tube trip?

The concept is of a public transport system, which is treated as a
whole. Not individual and distinct modes. Oyster would be an
absolutely ideal way to implement this kind of thing, as it could cap
single journeys involving multiple buses (for example) even if it
didn't reach the Travelcard cap.

Neil

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