On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:06:10 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:
[...] There are quite bad enough
queues at many LU stations without adding on the huge transactional cost
(in time and money) of being able to buy a Saver return to Fort William
on a Scotrail mega granny discount complete with a reservation for a
sleeper for the return trip. It makes no sense whatsoever for LU to be
retailing such products.

Agreed, but as you said, all NR stations in the old Network SouthEast
area could learn how to sell tickets to Underground zones (or make all
Travelcard area destination fares zonal at the same fare as LU). The
range of fares in the south east is very simple, I'd say easy to sell
at any Underground ticket office. Do they not get their 9% of a sale,
like a TOC?

There is already much integration but it stops short; still, I don't
see why the same organisation would need to run both operations, IMHO
this isn't necessary for, or even the meaning of, transport
integration.

Richard.