On 1 Jan, 18:58, "tim...." wrote:
In past years, free travel has been sponsored.

Did they not have a sponsor for yesterday?

Read the thread - references to ING were posted at least 4 hours
before you asked that queestion.....

In message , at 07:56:34
on Fri, 1 Jan 2010, remarked:
This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency from
around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.

The news broadcasts I saw, mentioned "free public transport until
4.30am".
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
07:56:34 on Fri, 1 Jan 2010, remarked:
This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency
from around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.

The news broadcasts I saw, mentioned "free public transport until
4.30am".

Happy New Year, Roland!

I've already noted that I was confused between the tube and NR.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 13:22:22
on Fri, 1 Jan 2010, remarked:

The news broadcasts I saw, mentioned "free public transport until
4.30am".

Happy New Year, Roland!

I've already noted that I was confused between the tube and NR.

Some 23 seconds after I posted my remark. Quick work!
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
13:22:22 on Fri, 1 Jan 2010, remarked:

The news broadcasts I saw, mentioned "free public transport until
4.30am".

Happy New Year, Roland!

I've already noted that I was confused between the tube and NR.

Some 23 seconds after I posted my remark. Quick work!

Hours before, given that I read and post offline.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:56:34 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a
surprise - the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in
the burbs. Fantastic. Good to know the people running public
transport really have the public interest at heart.

This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency
from around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.

Except, of course, that isn't what was organised. All tubes, DLR, buses
and trams were free from 2345 to 0430. One NR line - Southern (Victoria
to East Croydon) I think - also ran free. All the other NR lines had to
be paid for as I believe the subsidy was withdrawn as a result of TfL
budget cuts.

Ta. It turns out my informant was referring to the TOC train services.

--
Colin Rosenstiel (firmly in Cambridge last night and today)

On 1 Jan, 14:08, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:56:34 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a
surprise - the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in the
burbs. Fantastic. Good to know the people running public transport
really have the public interest at heart.

This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency from
around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.

Except, of course, that isn't what was organised. *All tubes, DLR, buses
and trams were free from 2345 to 0430. One NR line - Southern (Victoria
to East Croydon) I think - also ran free. All the other NR lines had to
be paid for as I believe the subsidy was withdrawn as a result of TfL
budget cuts.


It was always a fairly empty gesture anyway, if it was applied
correctly, given that most people would have travelcards or would have
got returns which were a few p more than a single, plus the lack of
checks anyway.

So if it really does affect the budget, I wonder who was claiming what
about the cost of it? Was it NR effectively scamming TfL about some
theoretical amount of revenue that would never have been collected in
practice?

In future, it really could make a difference, because PAYG involves
abolishing day returns and funds are collected without staff.

On 1 Jan, 14:41, Paul Corfield wrote:
Agreed - I think if we have free travel next year *and* the fares
revision on 1/1/11 (quite likely I would have thought)

Very unlikely actually.....TfL change fares on 2 January every year
now, regardless of the day of the week....

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:59:14 -0800 (PST), Chris
wrote:

On 1 Jan, 14:41, Paul Corfield wrote:
Agreed - I think if we have free travel next year *and* the fares
revision on 1/1/11 (quite likely I would have thought)

Very unlikely actually.....TfL change fares on 2 January every year
now, regardless of the day of the week....

Do they? I've learnt something then as I hadn't appreciated it was now
on a fixed date. It used to be the first Sunday in January when I was
involved in the fares revision process (a long time ago!).

I have to admit *I* was puzzled why the change this year is on January
2nd. I'd have expected it to happen on the 3rd though looking at FCC's web
site I see they are changing tomorrow too.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:12:12 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:

Agreed - I think if we have free travel next year *and* the fares
revision on 1/1/11 (quite likely I would have thought)

Very unlikely actually.....TfL change fares on 2 January every year
now, regardless of the day of the week....

Do they? I've learnt something then as I hadn't appreciated it was now
on a fixed date. It used to be the first Sunday in January when I was
involved in the fares revision process (a long time ago!).

1/1/11 is a Saturday...