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[email protected] · September 18th 09, 12:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

On Sep 13, 4:18*pm, (Neil Williams)
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:36:05 -0400, redcat
wrote:

Srsly, have fares ever gone down?

London bus fares have, haven't they?

Yes. Oyster PAYG fares were £1 at the beginning of 2007, but then
dropped to 90p that September IIRC. To be blunt, this was a fairly
transparent electioneering gambit from Ken given the upcoming
elections in May 2008. The fare went back up to £1 in January 2009.

Looking at a longer term perspective, the introduction of the flat
fare for buses had the effect of cutting the price for a load of bus
journeys. Ten years ago I used to pay £1.20 to get into central London
on a bus - nowadays the same journey would of course cost £1 (though
one suspects not for much longer - hence the subject of this thread).

You young people won't remember Fares Fair in 1981/2. Fares were cut to
10/20/30/40p for 1 to 4 zones. Even after the court challenge and the
subsequent increase to 20/40/60/80p they were cheaper than they had been
before for most journeys.

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Colin Rosenstiel