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Oyster PAYG and differential bus fares
On Jan 25, 9:31*pm, Mizter T wrote:
two long, comprehensive posts cut The idea of a rebate if one transfers to another bus is an interesting one - there are occasionally discussions here about whether free bus transfers in London would be a good idea , perhaps instead a half- price second bus fare might be an idea. The idea of free bus travel before or after using the Underground also gets raised from time to time - for a bus to Tube transfer this would take the form of a rebate, applied on exit from the Tube. On this particular point, I am not quite sure what the situation currently is anyway. If, for example, you touch on route 555 and it breaks down or stops short so that you get the next bus on route 555 where you get inspected ... Does each bus have its own ID so that the inspector can tell that you touched on that particular bus, or does the reader just show that you touched on route 555 within the allowed time? In general, unlimited travel for a period of time is easier to enforce than a (possibly unjust) charge per vehicle regardless of distance. (I remember a combination of metro and bus being allowed in Lille in the 1980s within an hour of clunking the ticket.) Whatever the answer about bus IDs, it must be impossible to enforce on the DLR and, in fact, why should you be charged double on your journey from Shadwell to Greenwich just because you want to do some shopping at Canary Wharf Tescos on the way (within the time)? If you drove, you wouldn't use double the petrol. |
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