On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:45:55 -0000, "solar penguin"
wrote:

Abolishing Oyster and the flat fare would give more useful info since a
record of the amount paid for each ticket would reflect the distance
travelled. (And, as a bonus, it would also end the injustice that
people only travelling a couple of stops pay the same as someone going
all the way from one end of the line to the other.)

It isn't an injustice, it's a model. The costs of operating a bus
route, once you've bought your buses and got started, bear very little
resemblence to who travels how far.

And charging different fares, unless purchased off the bus or unless
they had touching in *and* out[1] *seriously* slows down boarding.

[1] Singapore does.

Neil

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