In message
s.com of Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:16:19 in uk.transport.london, MIG
writes

[snip]

People are getting all hung up about the river, but the much more
serious and sinister issue is that this is paving the way for the
abolition of travelcards and the restoration (already under way) of
point to point fares calculated by formulas not available to the
public.

I wonder what you mean. I can think of Watford Junction peculiarities
and the difference between the printed and web versions of the two "Your
guide to fares and tickets ..." documents. The printed version says: "If
the time between touching in and touching out exceeds two and a half
hours you will be charged more than the Oyster single fare for your
journey." The actual time budget can now be as low as 70 minutes. I have
also seen suggestions that there will be no consistency between
Underground and National Rail fares when Pay As You Go is rolled out.
Do you refer to anything else?

Moving back to the map; it shows Marylebone to Bayswater via the TWO
Edgware Road stations as a reasonable route - an OSI between them would
make it slightly less unreasonable. Currently, that trip is ticketed as
TWO journeys. (I DO know a walk between Marylebone and Edgware Road
(subsurface) is more reasonable in that trip

I assume a continuing contract means IKEA has the right to dominate Tube
map posters - I would happily lose IKEA's yellow strip.

I find the new maps so much worse than the old that I wonder
"conspiracy?". I can't think who wins. The Mayor might think CUI BONO,
but is too bright to say so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono
--
Walter Briscoe