On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:06:42 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

They have bus to bus transfer in New York. Return trips are banned
within the transfer system so as to force people to pay for an outward
and return ride. While not quite the same rule as the one you suggest
the software programming was absolutely horrendous and I can see the
permutations being required in London for "forward" transfer being even
worse. I appreciate you say transfer onto a bus on the same route but
that would simply not be sustainable as the public would refuse to be
restricted to waiting for a 38 when they could, on some sections, also
take a 19 or a 341 for example. All of this "Logic" would have to be
programmed and maintained and it would probably cost as much as it
sought to save. Therefore you need a different commercial rule.

Or why not just allow a transfer when you board any other bus within
an hour (say) of boarding the first one, and just accept that the odd
few might be able to do a cheap return trip. That "concession" also
exists on the Dutch Strippenkaart.

Neil

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