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Oyster prepay fare capping
--- Paul Corfield said... All that would happen would be that fares would rise overall to deal with the mileage and related cost that you cling to as some sort of justification for adopting point to points. In the case of NR fares almost all PTPs are far more expensive than the Tube equivalent. IIRC even before the zones were introduced, the old British Rail fares were more still more expensive than the equivalent Tube fares. But yes, there are oddities and overpricings in the current NR system, but I still believe that in theory *a* point-to-point system could become the fairest possible system. Just not the one that NR are using at the moment! But there is no justification at all for differentiating fares like this on an urban railway system. It seems justified to me. It gives consumers a fair choice with different prices for different types of service. What's wrong with that? To use your theoretical basis Turnham Green would have to have two sets of fares to everywhere to deal with the fact that for a tiny part (early and late) of the day super fast Piccadilly Line trains stop. These are traditionally off peak times when fares would be cheaper but in your version they would be more expensive than the slow chug along District Line which provides the service at the height of the peak - the most expensive time of the day. Lunacy! The off-peak Piccadilly fares would be more expensive than the off-peak District fares, but not necessarily more expensive than the peak District fares. (BTW apologies to anyone in years to come who found that sentence while searching Google Groups for "the Peak District". Search engines are annoying, aren't they?) Whether you like it or not I cannot envisage the day when a zonal basis for fares in London will be abolished. Unfortunately, I can't realistically envisage them being abolished either. But it doesn't stop me believing they should be. |
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