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Future of CDRs and NR season tickets in TfL zones?
Solar Penguin wrote:
OTOH I'd say the fact that it doesn't have any demand management nonsense is a big advantage of my scheme. It gives the transport providers some incentive to actually improve the supply of transport where it's needed most, instead of discouraging customers from travelling. (E.g. if London had had something like that, instead of zones, maybe we'd have T2K and Crossrail by now!) But how many more tube trains can be run over the current system? How many more buses can be run through central London? How many more overground trains can operate out of the existing London terminal stations? There's very little room for additional services to be run over the current network, especially in the peaks. So demand management is required. The building of new train lines (at enormous cost) tends to attract more passengers onto the system, so it is unlikely that demand management could be relaxed, much less eliminated even with improvements in infrastructure. What I am hoping for as more advanced ticketing systems (e.g. Oyster) are introduced are more attempts to balance demand by time (more incentives to travel off-peak when the network is quieter) as well as by area (through the zonal system). -- Mark Etherington |
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