Neil Williams wrote:
Dave Newt wrote:


If you buy it on a Tuesday or Wednesday, then you only get 6 or 5 days
use out of it, i.e. it's still only valid to Sunday.

IIRC, the monthly is similar, i.e. it runs on the calendar month, and
you can buy the current month up to 23rd (21st?) of the month.

The point is that you can buy it part-way through its validity, as long
as you accept that you won't get a full week's use out of it.


What a quite amazingly silly setup.

That's what I thought when I moved there. I still do, but you do get
used to it and, given that most people buy monthlies month-in,
month-out, it doesn't really matter.

Surely it would be in RATP's interest to allow it to run for any
7-day/calendar month period? Otherwise they're just creating problems
in the form of massive queues at ticket offices on Mondays and the last
few days of each month?

There USED to be massive queues at the start of the month, yeah. But
they brought in new, better, faster, multifunction, reliable,
multilingual ticket machines, and ****loads of them, and the queuing
problem really just disappeared.

Or do they do what Hamburg do and only open ticket offices on a small
number of days at all, thus saving on staff costs? (I think this
rotates around, though, so the same staff can cover different stations)

They may do now, but they didn't then, though there are not huge numbers
of ticket windows (no need for them). What LUL is doing now is more or
less what the RATP did about ten years ago...