In message .com of
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:06:36 in uk.transport.london, Joe Patrick
writes
wrote:
This week TfL pledged £150,000 to Work Wise UK, an organisation
encouraging more flexible working hours. TfL's press release
highlighted how this helps manage demand on the transport network.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-cent...ss-releases-co
ntent.asp?prID=960
But simultaneously TfL are ending the Oyster Pay As You Go price
differential between peak and off-peak travel on the buses. Why are
they contradicting their policy to incentivise encourage off-peak
travel? Wasn't one of the reasons for introducing Oyster the ease with
which it handles this differential pricing?

Did 20p really make much of a difference anyway? Considering most of
the "commuters" would probably hold a bus pass, for which the price
stays the same regardless of time of day, and those who don't may end
up being capped for doing more than 3 Jrnys.


I have no job, am signed on and it DOES make a difference.
For similar reasons, I rarely travel by underground but prefer to
exchange time for money. I walk short journeys, use buses for
intermediate ones and only use the underground for long ones or where
there is no suitable point to point bus service. I got nowhere when I
suggested that bus interchange should be free for an hour on Oyster.
Free interchange applies in Ottawa.
--
Walter Briscoe