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s.com of Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:38:34 in uk.transport.london,
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On Sep 14, 5:34*pm, "Nicks" wrote:
Picked up one at an underground station today - new tube map posters are
also up - quite a lot of design changes made! River Thames has disappeared
and zones are no longer shown.

Nicks

Actually NYC eliminated the zone map in the 70's

Irrelevantly interesting
I worked in NYC in 1983.
All journeys were flat rate and cost a token which AFAIR cost $0.90.

London Underground has distance-related charging by zones.
The cost of most journeys is a complicated function of class of customer
(Adult; child 0-10; child 11-15; etc.), oyster or paper ticket, peak or
off peak and zones traversed.

Losing zones from the maps seems gross to me.

There are 2 fares guides for zones 1-6 and zones 7-9. You can view them
via http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresandtickets/2930.aspx

Just to make things interesting, paper guides at stations are slightly
obsolete. They say Oyster Pay as You Go Journeys must be completed in
2.5 hours; reality and web documents say 70 minutes to 4 hours.
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Walter Briscoe