"Solar Penguin" wrote in message
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What's silly about that? In the present system, even if you just take a
*local* bus ride, just a couple of stops or so, you have to pay the same
as a journey the *whole length* of the bus route! Think how much money
you could save if you only paid for the short journey you actually
travel, instead of all those miles you don't!

But this is one of the great strengths of a zonal fares system: it
encourages people to walk instead of clogging up PT for short journeys.

D A Stocks