On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:57:51PM -0700, alex_t wrote:

About 6 months ago I saw in the news some gang that was busted for
making fake paper travelcards.

If it's the story I'm thinking of, it was bus saver tickets.

But instead of trying to abolish those, TfL went to the expense and
trouble of issuing a new series that are supposedly harder to fake.

Proving that "fake paper tickets" being a reason to switch to Oyster is
a lie. Cos if it was true they'd have abolished bus saver things.

So self fullfilling prophesy then - less people use them because they
jack the price up so they can claim they want to get rid of them
because less people use them and hence its less economic. Nice.
I'd argue that majority of people switched to Oyster because it is
much more convenient.

Yes, being half the price is certainly more convenient. The point is
that the only reason it's half the price is because cash fares have
shot up faster than at any other time that I can remember.

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