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Whay can't we do the same here?
A one-day bus pass is £3.00. Not too bad, perhaps, but that's still £15.00 a
week if you use if every weekday. If I want to go from home to, say, the Strand, I can do it with one bus trip. If I travel after 9:30, and use my Oyster prepay, it's 80p, so there and back is £1.60. It doesn't take much working out to see that this is a lot less than £3.00. If I did this every day for a week I would save £7.00. However, if I want to go to, say, Gower Street, that's two bus rides, total cost £1.60. I often walk to save the mone, or use a bus which takes me almost there but not quite. It's stupid that I have to do this. Ok, it's only 80p, but twice a day, every day, it soon adds up. I can understand that TfL might be worried that people would pass their "transfers" to friends or even sell them, although, for some reason, this doesn't seem to worry bus operators in North America. But with my Oyster card, this could be done automatically - no paper ticket, so nothing to pass on to someone else, no risk of misuse. If they can do "daily capping" with Oyster, they could do transfers. It seems that it's just tradition that stops them. -- Philip "Neil Williams" wrote in message ... On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:32:10 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone" wrote: For a LU to LU journey is buying a Travelcard in some way more difficult than buying a point to point ticket? It isn't, but it's quite possibly more expensive. Neil -- Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK When replying please use neil at the above domain 'wensleydale' is a spam trap and is not read. |
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