Out of interest, does anyone recall how much a Zone 1 tube single cost
when Ken was first elected? If it was that much less than £1.50 then
I'd be very much surprised. If so, this all strikes me as a very good
deal - especially with the flexibility of Pre-Pay.

If anything, I shouldn't be surprised if this move causes TfL revenue
to fall - although this will probably be balanced out by decreased
costs from staffing of ticket windows and the handling of large amounts
of change from machines. I'd certainly agree with previous posters who
have said that fear of change seems to be a large basis of the
criticism of this scheme. The political criticism reported by the BBC
last night seemed to be very much a scraping of the barrel to find
something to hit the Mayor with operation.