Out of interest, does anyone recall how much a Zone 1 tube single cost
when Ken was first elected? If it was that much less than £1.50 then
I'd be very much surprised. If so, this all strikes me as a very good
deal - especially with the flexibility of Pre-Pay.

If anything, I shouldn't be surprised if this move causes TfL revenue
to fall - although this will probably be balanced out by decreased
costs from staffing of ticket windows and the handling of large amounts
of change from machines. I'd certainly agree with previous posters who
have said that fear of change seems to be a large basis of the
criticism of this scheme. The political criticism reported by the BBC
last night seemed to be very much a scraping of the barrel to find
something to hit the Mayor with operation.

Out of interest, does anyone recall how much a Zone 1 tube single cost
when Ken was first elected? If it was that much less than £1.50 then
I'd be very much surprised. If so, this all strikes me as a very good
deal - especially with the flexibility of Pre-Pay.

It was £1.50 at January 2000.

Thanks - so in real terms a fare cut. Won't see the Standard running on
that one.

In message , at 09:38:36 on Wed, 5
Oct 2005, TKD remarked:
Out of interest, does anyone recall how much a Zone 1 tube single cost
when Ken was first elected? If it was that much less than £1.50 then
I'd be very much surprised. If so, this all strikes me as a very good
deal - especially with the flexibility of Pre-Pay.

It was £1.50 at January 2000.

What was the carnet price? I have an idea it was £1.10 (£11 quid for 10
tickets). As an infrequent traveller, that was my solution at the time.
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Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:38:36 on Wed, 5
Oct 2005, TKD remarked:
Out of interest, does anyone recall how much a Zone 1 tube single cost
when Ken was first elected? If it was that much less than £1.50 then
I'd be very much surprised. If so, this all strikes me as a very good
deal - especially with the flexibility of Pre-Pay.

It was £1.50 at January 2000.

What was the carnet price? I have an idea it was £1.10 (£11 quid for 10
tickets). As an infrequent traveller, that was my solution at the time.

Sounds about right - when I arrived in London in 2002, Carnet worked out
at £1.15 per ticket (and bus Savers were 65p). It went up to £1.50 per
ticket in 2003.

For me, the decrease in the Zone 1-2 prepay fare after 7pm from £2.00 to
£1.50 is certainly welcome.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London