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Nick wrote:
"Ian Jelf" wrote... writes I know "Londoners" find this hard to believe, but many of us don't wanty to be part of your high-density overpopulated sprawling urban gloom. But people there are probably happy with their co-ordinated public transport and - when the time comes - Freedom Passes? Whenever I have this debate about Bexley part of Greater London or not, the biggest noise always seems to be made about the Freedom pass! Probably because the holders have got the most to lose, and will fiercely resist any attempt to take it away. Arguably, I think the freedom pass is overkill anyway; I would support free use of local buses to moderately distant locations, trains to central London, and maybe tube travel in Z1 off-peak. In Bexley, I would guess that 95% of Freedom pass owners use the train and tube extremely rarely, and probably less than 50% use the buses regularly. Do you know any Freedom pass owners? Your guess seems wildly low! I don't believe pensioners are at all bothered that they can travel to Uxbridge for free. Maybe not Uxbridge, but certainly Kingston and Heathrow, despite the truncation of the 726 at Bromley. How many Freedom pass users regularly travel to Dartford and Bluewater and contribute to "out-of-region" retail spend I wonder :-) Unlike normal bus passes, Freedom passes are not valid as far as Bluewater. However, they are valid to Dartford and Swanley on the train as well as on the bus. Hundreds use Freedom passes to get to Dartford and Swanley markets, but that's hardly "out of region". Co-ordinated local public transport? In Bexley, that just means running buses with the NR network, and you don't need a massive Greater London body to draw up a few bus timetables to match those of the NR network. Services in Bexley are so erratic that timetabled connections would be meaningless. Fortunately most routes are reasonably frequent (with the exception of the B14 which only runs every 30 minutes on a good day) and buses serve every rail station in Bexley LB. |
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