Efficiency at last
No not improved services, punctuality or trains. As I predicted the quickest thing LU do in a year is put the prices up and get all those machines changed in a flash.
We have the most when it comes to our tube network.
Most Costly
Most inefficient
Most Slow
Most crap trains (especially the disgusting district line)
Most signal failures
I could go on but its too depressing but I wonder if we have the most jumpers too.
So if the lowest single journey in now £4 thereby removing the freedom to travel on a whim of those that are not regular tube users, by the time of the olympics our guests from around the world should be paying £16 for the lowest cost journey. By then the star trek style beam me up travel option should be available so we wont need the tube which wil be gleamingly new, fast and efficient (yeah right) ....... and empty. The government dont need to worry about an overheated economy LU seem to have the answer to slowing growth.
Still with the thousands of new Europeans that will be flooding in perhaps a rickshaw or people powered stagecoach service will be implemented.
posted by DT @ Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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3 Comments:
Get a taxi - it's cheaper.
I must say that the other day I was helping a customer buy a paper ticket and was embarassed to tell them that to get to Barbican station was going to be £9 for 3 people.
Oh well the PPP and Americans (and their Zone 1 Houses) need to be paid for somehow.
I don't disagree with your sentiments concerning the fares hike, but I would like to point out that these fares are set by Transport For London and not London Underground Limited.
The lowest zone 1 fare is £1.50 - with an Oyster card. Sure, there is a one-off deposit of £3, but that's even waved if you sign up at one of the recruitment days at a station and put £5 worth of value on the card. After that you can travel 'on a whim' for £1.50 a pop.
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