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January 4th 06, 11:36 PM
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Is pay-per-use Oystercard cheaper than... an annual travelcard?
"Arthur Figgis" ] wrote in message
... On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:11:26 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote: In article .com, (Richard Adamfi) wrote: If you think it is a con, blame the TOCs for not accepting Oyster, rather than Ken/TfL. The TOCs were forced by the Government not to adopt Oyster because it was not Standards-compliant. This is news to me - where did you get this snippet of information from? The standards problem has been in the railway press - probably in Modern Railways and elsewhere. Also mentioned by the mayor here http://mqt.london.gov.uk//public/question.do?id=12553. I can see where the TOC's are coming from on this issue, it seems Livingston is insisting they pay for the 'retailing and validation capability' of oyster installation in stations when the dft is developing (presumably still a work in progress) a separate system for the rest of the UK, which they will be installing a few years later. And then here http://mqt.london.gov.uk//public/question.do?id=13087 Livingston lays down the costs. TfL is hardly short of cash, if £60m is all it would take for implementation why can't he just get on with it?. He's not exactly known for being prudent and to argue over a relatively small project (cost wise) with such large potential benefits seems incredibly petty. |
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