On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:42:45 -0000, "Beano"
wrote:

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be uproar. A
zone one single ticket has gone from £2 to £3. This is will rip off tourists
and occasional tube users. Surely you can see this is extortionate.

If you think a 50% rise is big, consider the price of a 1 or 2 zone
single outside zone 1 - they've gone up from £1.30 to £3.00. I make
that a 130% increase.

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article , (Nick Cooper) wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

For those who remember the thread about the new fare structure
penalising outsiders and TOC passengers I discovered an
unanticipated further factor at East Putney this morning.

Yes, we remember well how you failed to acknowledge that the only
people that would be "penalised" would be the ones who self-evidently
wanted to be.

Last year I bought only two tube singles, the two I had bought to
date when the thread was going. This morning I had to buy a £3 single
because I had to stay in London last night (to meet my aged mother at
Heathrow). It probably won't happen again all year so no thought of
buying an Oyster card.

Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.
--
Nick Cooper

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In ,
Beano typed:

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be
uproar.

And if they reduced the price to holders of a special card, there would
be yelps of delight.




--
Bob

In ,
asdf typed:

If you think a 50% rise is big, consider the price of a 1 or 2 zone
single outside zone 1 - they've gone up from £1.30 to £3.00. I make
that a 130% increase.

And holders of a magic card can make the same journey at a 66% discount,
making it cheaper than it was for non-holders even before the rise.

Why doesn't everybody have one of these magic cards?


--
Bob

In ,
Nick Cooper typed:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:


Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.

I live well outside London - but I still see the good sense of having
an Oystercard.


--
Bob

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:56:04 +0000, Barry Salter
wrote:

[oyster]

Further to this, it is to be hoped that station staff are offering
Oyster to people, particularly at stations like Heathrow, Tottenham
Hale, Liverpool Street, Victoria and Waterloo, where you're likely to
have a large percentage of overseas visitors.

Not sure if this is happening but I would be very surprised if it wasn't
given the huge advertising campaign that is springing up.

And, of course, they don't even need to register the card, so it's just
a case of paying the deposit, putting some credit on it, and then going.

Which is exactly what I do when I arrive in Hong Kong at the airport.
Straight to the ticket desk, is the card still working? how much is on
it? please add this much - thank you. Ready to travel. Off to Airbus to
hotel. beep goes the card reader. Bus departs .....
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:39:14 GMT, "Bob Wood"
wrote:

In ,
Nick Cooper typed:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.

I live well outside London - but I still see the good sense of having
an Oystercard.

So does my mother, and she lives in Newcastle.
--
Nick Cooper

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http://www.nickcooper.org.uk/

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:36:52 GMT, "Bob Wood"
wrote:

In ,
asdf typed:

If you think a 50% rise is big, consider the price of a 1 or 2 zone
single outside zone 1 - they've gone up from £1.30 to £3.00. I make
that a 130% increase.

And holders of a magic card can make the same journey at a 66% discount,
making it cheaper than it was for non-holders even before the rise.

Why doesn't everybody have one of these magic cards?

Stubbornness?
--
Nick Cooper

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The London Underground at War, and in Films & TV:
http://www.nickcooper.org.uk/

In article , (Bob Wood) wrote:

In ,
Nick Cooper typed:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.

I live well outside London - but I still see the good sense of
having an Oystercard.

That's the point. It's mostly a Network South East issue.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In ,
Colin Rosenstiel typed:

In article ,
(Bob Wood) wrote:

In ,
Nick Cooper typed:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:41 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

Nose. Spite. Face.

You Londoners just don't understand us provincials do you?

I've lived more of my life outside of London than in it, so don't
bother trying to play that snobbish card.

I live well outside London - but I still see the good sense of
having an Oystercard.

That's the point. It's mostly a Network South East issue.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Please explain.

I *do* live in the NSE area, but still find an Oystercard saves me
money.


--
Bob