On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:42:45 -0000, "Beano"
wrote:

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be uproar. A
zone one single ticket has gone from £2 to £3.

Down to £1.50.

Surely you can see this is extortionate.

What I can't see is why people would choose to pay double what they
need to.

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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

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(Nick Cooper) wrote:

Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.

I live well outside London - but I still see the good sense of
having an Oystercard.

That's the point. It's mostly a Network South East issue.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Please explain.

I *do* live in the NSE area, but still find an Oystercard saves me
money.

Don't you get one day Travelcards for trips to London? Don't you have a Network Card giving you discounts on all rail travel except on LU?

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Colin Rosenstiel typed:

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(Bob Wood) wrote:

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Colin Rosenstiel typed:

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(Bob Wood) wrote:

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Nick Cooper typed:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.

I live well outside London - but I still see the good sense of
having an Oystercard.

That's the point. It's mostly a Network South East issue.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Please explain.

I *do* live in the NSE area, but still find an Oystercard saves me
money.

Don't you get one day Travelcards for trips to London? Don't you have
a Network Card giving you discounts on all rail travel except on LU?

I have a Network Card, yes. But the only time it is ever worth me
getting a Travelcard from my home-town is between 8 and 10 on a weekday
*and* I intend to make more than a couple of journeys in the capital.
Otherwise SET PriceBuster + Oystercard is cheapest for me.



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Bob

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be uproar.

Indeed?? The price of a cheap bag of flour has nearly tripled in most
supermarkets in something like the last year. I've not discerned any
uproar.

In article , (Bob Wood) wrote:

Don't you get one day Travelcards for trips to London? Don't you
have a Network Card giving you discounts on all rail travel except
on LU?

I have a Network Card, yes. But the only time it is ever worth me
getting a Travelcard from my home-town is between 8 and 10 on a
weekday *and* I intend to make more than a couple of journeys in the
capital. Otherwise SET PriceBuster + Oystercard is cheapest for me.

It's not like that in WAGN-land. Must be a benefit of a nationalised
railway.

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:56:04 +0000, Barry Salter
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:46:39 GMT,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:42:45 -0000, "Beano"
wrote:

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be uproar. A
zone one single ticket has gone from £2 to £3. This is will rip off tourists
and occasional tube users. Surely you can see this is extortionate.

Surely you'd have to be stupid to not see that getting an Oyster card
makes all the "rip off" bull**** disappear. Actually, _you_ probably
can't....

Further to this, it is to be hoped that station staff are offering
Oyster to people, particularly at stations like Heathrow, Tottenham
Hale, Liverpool Street, Victoria and Waterloo, where you're likely to
have a large percentage of overseas visitors.

And, of course, they don't even need to register the card, so it's just
a case of paying the deposit, putting some credit on it, and then going.

You have to admit this is a clever trick by LU though. By forcing
even the occasional user onto oyster prepay they're going to be left
with a LOT of cards with £6 or whatever sitting on them un-used. The
interest on all that cash is going to make them quite a bit.

Of course, it'll be even better when National Rail start universally
accepting Oyster PrePay...

Never gonna happen.

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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:51:51 +0000, Tom Robinson
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:56:04 +0000, Barry Salter
wrote:

Of course, it'll be even better when National Rail start universally
accepting Oyster PrePay...

Never gonna happen.

That's what they said about Travelcard - Capitalcard, and what they
said about Student LT Card - Student Travelcard.

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:56:04 +0000, Barry Salter
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:46:39 GMT,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:42:45 -0000, "Beano"
wrote:

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be uproar.
A
zone one single ticket has gone from £2 to £3. This is will rip off
tourists
and occasional tube users. Surely you can see this is extortionate.

Surely you'd have to be stupid to not see that getting an Oyster card
makes all the "rip off" bull**** disappear. Actually, _you_ probably
can't....

Further to this, it is to be hoped that station staff are offering
Oyster to people, particularly at stations like Heathrow, Tottenham
Hale, Liverpool Street, Victoria and Waterloo, where you're likely to
have a large percentage of overseas visitors.

And, of course, they don't even need to register the card, so it's just
a case of paying the deposit, putting some credit on it, and then going.

You have to admit this is a clever trick by LU though. By forcing
even the occasional user onto oyster prepay they're going to be left
with a LOT of cards with £6 or whatever sitting on them un-used. The
interest on all that cash is going to make them quite a bit.

Of course, it'll be even better when National Rail start universally
accepting Oyster PrePay...

Never gonna happen.

It will happen when Ken gets responsibility for the local services

which is going to happen sometime

tim


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