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18:55:21 on Sat, 10 May 2008, Arthur Figgis

I can't think of a city anywhere that makes it easy for people with
loads of fresh, high denomination currency to use standard public
transport services.
They've solved that in Geneva, where previously you had to have the
somewhat unlikely amount of 3 Francs in coins only, by giving all
arrivals at the airport a free bus/tram/train ticket to the City centre.
In Lisbon you can buy a voucher (for about a tenner) which will pay
for a taxi ride from the airport to anywhere in the city.
A useful scheme would be an EU-wide voucher for a "bus/train/tram
ticket from airport to anywhere in that City" for about 5 Euros,

London Ashford airport? Or even Luton and Stansted.

It's always going to be more difficult for London because the PT prices
are so much higher anyway. But if I can get a bus from the airport into
the centre of Berlin for £1.50, or a train from Schiphol to Amsterdam
for £2.60, or Brussels Airport to City Centre for £2.10, then I think we
should make more of an effort (for people with air tickets to prove
entitlement to the flat rate fare).

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Roland Perry