Solar Penguin wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 9 Jan 2005:


What's silly about that? In the present system, even if you just take a
*local* bus ride, just a couple of stops or so, you have to pay the same
as a journey the *whole length* of the bus route! Think how much money
you could save if you only paid for the short journey you actually
travel, instead of all those miles you don't!

Which has been the case in many European cities for a great number of
years now.
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"Mrs Redboots"
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