On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:47:01 -0000, "Anon"
wrote:

If I understand you right. When capping comes in it will work on the price
stucture for peak time travelcards and LT cards not off peak travelcards.

It will not work for peak time travelcards either - to cap at Travelcard
prices you have to be able to record all forms of Travelcard valid
travel. Hence you are back to the issue about almost all NR journeys not
being recorded and not being valid for Pre-Pay travel.

The ticket that aligns to the planned Pre Pay validity is the LT Card.

If this is correct most customers will still be better off with a paper
tickets.

Yes I think that is my conclusion too.

When do you think capping will work at OPTC prices

I have no idea on the timing. As I have said before it is clear that the
TfL business plan has as an option an extension of pre-pay facilities
and validity to the whole London rail network. That is not without some
interesting practical problems to solve but if it was to happen then
capping at ODTC prices would become feasible.

In the meantime the policy appears to be to negotiate with individual
TOCs and extend pre-pay validity where possible line by line. Therefore
the LT / NR interavailability rules expand at the same time.
--
Paul C


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