On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:44:56 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

The pdf I downloaded gives single bus fares as follows:

Cash: £1.20 (at all times)

Oyster PrePay: £1.00 ( Mon-Fri 0630 - 0929)
80p at all other times


It's a while since I downloaded it so I can't give a valid URL.

The new one has definitely changed. It even says so on the cover page: "75%
recycled." ;-)

Definitely a good time to stock up on £0.70 Saver Tickets. They'll still be
good in the new year.

Marc Brett typed

The new one has definitely changed. It even says so on the cover
page: "75%
recycled." ;-)

It has changed but the old one also states '75% recycled'...
The two leaflets appear identical until you examine the details. They
both state January 2005 as publication date...

Definitely a good time to stock up on £0.70 Saver Tickets. They'll still be
good in the new year.

I couldn't get any (sold out) last December.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

The morning peak £1.00 bus fare on prepay is still planned, although
its introduction will not take place until 27th February 2005, not on
2nd January like the rest of the fare changes. This info is from TfL
publicity dated 24th December, so presumably later than either version
of the fares leaflet? As to why the difference in dates, I have no
idea...

Keith

wrote:
The morning peak £1.00 bus fare on prepay is still planned, although
its introduction will not take place until 27th February 2005, not
on 2nd January like the rest of the fare changes. This info is from
TfL publicity dated 24th December, so presumably later than either
version of the fares leaflet? As to why the difference in dates, I
have no idea...

If this is true, TfL are making it remarkably difficult for the public
to find out about it. There's nothing on the TfL or London Buses site
that I can see, and it's not in the fares leaflet. What was the form of
the "TfL publicity dated 24th December"? It's not in their published
press releases.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Marc Brett wrote:

Definitely a good time to stock up on £0.70 Saver Tickets. They'll
still be
good in the new year.

What's the odds that some places will forget about the price rise and
continue selling cheap savers?

"Marc Brett" wrote:

Definitely a good time to stock up on £0.70 Saver Tickets. They'll still
be good in the new year.


That's if you can still find any. An article on London Tonight in the week
claimed newsagents have stockpiled tickets bought at the old rate and are
telling customers they've run out of them. They said it was unlikely you'd
find any available for sale until the price rise comes into effect.

Bit of poor planning by TfL not throttling the supply in the run-up to the
new fares, the extra cash would be better off going on the transport system,
not to the ticket agent.

Regards,
Dave

I've tried several local newsagents' in the last few days and none of them
will sell me more than one book of Saver tickets. Surely this isn't allowed
if they have them?

Thomas

"Dave Plumb" wrote in message
...
"Marc Brett" wrote:

Definitely a good time to stock up on £0.70 Saver Tickets. They'll still
be good in the new year.


That's if you can still find any. An article on London Tonight in the week
claimed newsagents have stockpiled tickets bought at the old rate and are
telling customers they've run out of them. They said it was unlikely you'd
find any available for sale until the price rise comes into effect.

Bit of poor planning by TfL not throttling the supply in the run-up to the
new fares, the extra cash would be better off going on the transport
system,
not to the ticket agent.

Regards,
Dave

In message , Thomas
writes

I've tried several local newsagents' in the last few days and none of them
will sell me more than one book of Saver tickets. Surely this isn't allowed
if they have them?

I don't think any shopkeeper is obliged to sell you anything if they
don't want to, are they?

--
Paul Terry

All tube station ticket offices sell Savers as I recall. Perhaps they
are above such activity; you could try purchasing from there.

Dave Plumb wrote:

Bit of poor planning by TfL not throttling the supply in the run-up to the
new fares, the extra cash would be better off going on the transport system,
not to the ticket agent.

But it seems the flaw in the system is that the agents have stockpiled the
tickets in readiness for a £1.80 additional profit after 2 January. To me
the auditing of stock supplies and sales to the pass agents isn't properly
controlled, what should happen is that sales ought to pass through the same
system used to issue Travelcards and Bus Passes.

--
Phil Richards
London, UK
Home Page: http://www.philrichards1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk