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Colin Rosenstiel · October 12th 05, 07:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
EMOVE (Colum Mylod) wrote:

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:53 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:
...
The concept is of a public transport system, which is treated as a
whole. Not individual and distinct modes. Oyster would be an
absolutely ideal way to implement this kind of thing, as it could
cap single journeys involving multiple buses (for example) even if it
didn't reach the Travelcard cap.

Indeed. Far too sensible for whoever is Transport Secretary this week,
though.

And well-covered in a "Yes Minister" episode which was repeated
recently on BBC4. Jim Hacker is appointed Transport Supremo to push
integrated transport until he cops that it's Whitehall's poisoned
chalice. Now if that was a joke in the '80 it's a very long-running
not so funny joke.

It was well past its prime even then. :-(

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Colin Rosenstiel