Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:43:04 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:53:56 +0100, asdf
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:01:17 +0100, Dave Arquati wrote:
- TOCs will introduce zonal fares in January 2007, thus paving the way
for an easy PAYG rollout
This point seems to be the most intruiging, and the biggest shake-up.
It seems that the same fares will apply across all TOCs. I suppose
this means that fares on some routes will go up and on other routes
will go down. What will happen to CDRs and Railcard discounts? Will
the changes spread outside the zones, or could it be cheaper to buy a
return from the first station outside the zones if travelling from
Zone 6 to Zone 1? How will fares from NR to Tube stations be
calculated? What about if the NR journey starts outside the zones?
We will definitely see very strange pricing in that case. It is
extremely difficult to avoid that around boundarys between zonal-fare
areas and distance based fare areas. I live in Sweden and when
travelling by rail across the country here it is in many cases cheaper
to add a short extra journey into the next county to the rail ticket if
travelling to a place near a county border and things like that. Maybe
we will see that in Grater London too in the future.
I printed off the 2007 fares guide at work so I'll stick a post up
tomorrow about what the tube-train fares are. I don't have enough info
to answer most of your questions but the numbers might help explain
things a bit.
I said I would post something on the train-tube fares so here goes.
The new train-tube fares are as follows
Fares including zone 1
Adult Child
Peak Off Peak Peak Off Peak
Single Return Return Single Return Return
1 zone 400 - - 200 - -
2 zones 410 660* 510* 200 330* 200*
3 zones 470 780* 570* 230 390* 200*
4 zones 510 900* 570* 250 450* 200*
5 zones 580 1120* 670* 290 560* 200*
6 zones 680 1320* 670* 340 660* 200*
I don't quite get this... A single 6 zones from/to/through Z1 will be
6.80 and an off-peak day travelcard for Z 1-6 will be 6.70. Ok, hope
they will not sell singles at off-peak time then if a day travelcard
would be 10p cheaper... Or am I missing something here?
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Olof Lagerkvist
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