London Banter - View Single Post - Best tickets for Cambridge-Tolworth via Putney?

Colin Rosenstiel · November 14th 07, 11:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
lid (asdf) wrote:

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:31 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Colin Rosenstiel
wrote:

So I can get a single from East Putney to Tolworth for £3.80 or from
Putney to Tolworth (via Clapham Junction) for £2.90. Why such an
enormous (in percentage terms) premium for the shorter route via LU?

No-one? I'm most surprised the fare from East Putney is so high.

It's because there's a change of modes involved. Fares for through
LU-NR (or vice versa) journeys have for a long time been more
expensive than similar journeys that just use LU or NR - it used to be
simply the price of the two separate journey legs added together. The
new zonal Train Tube Fares were introduced a couple of years back, but
these merely continued the trend (they are more expensive than straight
Tube paper tickets, which are themselves priced at 'punitive' levels).

Ouch! I thought they were supposed to have moved towards zonal fares on
NR last January?

Was there an answer to the other question, BTW? Anyone know?

Perhaps the Putney-Tolworth and Tolworth-Clapham Jcn singles could be a
Putney-Tolworth return at £4.70, saving 70p and reducing the Zones 1 &
2
saver total to £23.85. I assume a Putney-Tolworth return wouldn't be
valid to Vauxhall on the return leg, despite it also being in Zone 2?

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Colin Rosenstiel