Reply to: Tube prices increase 50% 'to deter cash users'

[Dundeegeorge]

Free-range chicken?

Have they closed down all the proper chicken-farms then?

[Denny]

It all sound good to me.
Why pay with Money (Afterall what's cash all about?)
I think we should get back to the old "barter system"

Tried to get a ticket on the undergroud yesterday with a dead chicken.. but they hadn't got change !

Well, considering the average cost of a freerange chicken is about £4-5 from Sainsbury's that wouldn't have been a good deal anyway.

[Not So Wise]

and west then it would have encroached on Tower Hamlets.

Think he is more advoiding canary wharf than the whole tower hamelts borough, especially when you consider portions of the zone are actually already in tower hamlets

[hyperD]

It started East, you geographically-challenged man! If you consider the centre of London to be what's inside the Circle Line, then only the Eastern half of that was under congestion charge, the West like Hyde Park, Paddington etc were not covered! About time this is rectified, I say

Becs - you can't trust the tube map for orientation - too much time dilation and relativistic effects occurring, hence the distortion!

If you look at a map, the centre of the congestion charge is pretty much on the City of London centre, near Holborn.

The proposed new extension is westward, from Oxford Circus to West Kensington. If red ken extended the same length both east and west then it would have encroached on Tower Hamlets.

He of course may well do that in the future but I'd be surprised if he did.

More details here:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/cc-ex/maps.shtml

Before:http://www.cclondon.com/download/DetailMapCCZ.pdf


After:

[hyperD]

It started East, you geographically-challenged man! If you consider the centre of London to be what's inside the Circle Line, then only the Eastern half of that was under congestion charge, the West like Hyde Park, Paddington etc were not covered! About time this is rectified, I say

Looking at wrong map - sorry!!

[threaded]

Not far wrong there. I've had to get off the tube more than once and walk because the stench was so over-powering I feared I might vomit, and secondly the smell would stick to my clothes and hence follow me about all day.

[datestamp]

Congestion charging - yes, I think that everybody should be subjected to a sniffle test before being allowed to board a train. Anyone with congestion should be charged double.

The London Underground, as sponsored by Sinex.

[Rebecca Loos]

I want to see congesting charging moving east as well as west.

It started East, you geographically-challenged man! If you consider the centre of London to be what's inside the Circle Line, then only the Eastern half of that was under congestion charge, the West like Hyde Park, Paddington etc were not covered! About time this is rectified, I say

[steve'O]

It all sound good to me.
Why pay with Money (Afterall what's cash all about?)
I think we should get back to the old "barter system"

Tried to get a ticket on the undergroud yesterday with a dead chicken.. but they hadn't got change !

[hyperD]

Funny init, red ken tells us how he is concerned about the number of laandaners who live below the poverty line, how many of them live in the cash economy working in the grey sector.

He then specifically targets them with a huge increase in their travelling costs.

Yeah! I think he is concerned. Concerned about not raping that particular demographic.

I want to see congesting charging moving east as well as west. Fat chance though... too many red ken supporters.

Look! It's ken:

[threaded]

The Lone Gunman: Well spotted.

[The Lone Gunman]

Funny init, red ken tells us how he is concerned about the number of laandaners who live below the poverty line, how many of them live in the cash economy working in the grey sector.

He then specifically targets them with a huge increase in their travelling costs.

[n5gooner]

but that's ok cos Laaaandaners can afford it cos in laaaandan everyone's a millionaire init

Milan.

....and the streets are paved with gold.....

[milanbenes]

but that's ok cos Laaaandaners can afford it cos in laaaandan everyone's a millionaire init

Milan.

[Not So Wise]

This is what I want to see start happening. Fairs go up by 10% then efficiency of public transport also go up by 10%. Failing that no price incrase!

Yes thats what we all would like to see, sadly though experience tells us that the opasite happens, aka prices go up by X and the efficiency goes down by the same amount.

If anything prices for card users should be falling while cash users stay the same, London already has one of the most expencive, if not the most expensive public transport systems in the world.