Cubic did a system for Brisbane years ago that only enabled the validators when the on-board controller's GPS detected that the bus was near a stop and either slowing down or stopped. Not perfect, but no system ever is.
What is difficult about telling people that if they don't touch out the fare is £3 and that touching out gives a lower fare for shorter journeys? People manage to touch on pink readers on the underground where it makes their fare cheaper. I've seen them do it.
Given the inaccuracies of ibus this is unlikely to work to the point of reliability where differential fares can be charged
No politician is ever going to give approval to TfL to do that, given how imbued the system is, and it would be a disaster anyway.
It's been working in Brisbane for years, or I wouldn't have brought it up.
Yet the u4 I'm on which runs between Hayes prologis Park and uxbridge regularly throws out announcements for Oxford circus
Evening Standard (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-underground-tube-strikes-tfl-cuts-b970468.html) may add nothing to this, but says that 250 of the job cuts will be by not filling vacant posts and the remainder by not replacing staff who leave or retire.
EDIT BBC report says much the same.
Reduced staff levels at Central London tube stations potentially have some serious health and safety implications.
True enough, hence "potentially"...
All posts proposed for withdrawal at this stage are Customer Service Assistants.
The problem with that is an European Court of Justice ruling in 2015 has required travel time from home to work and work to home has to be counted as working time for the purposes of breaks and rest period calculations if you work in multiple locations but not a fixed location.
I don't believe this can be true without a wholesale throwing out of framework agreements.
And the same applies in other cities - from a recent trip, Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore are all large cities which have high capacity 2 (or 3) door buses with touch out where the validators only become active at bus stops, or you pay the maximum fare from where you boarded.
That isn’t true whatsoever. There are no plans for the station staff framework to be changed again, and the staff taxi network isn’t being changed either.
All that is worth considering, although reintroducing the N suffix to night routes that are the same as day routes would be reversing previous policy, In my view, for the little it's worth, all the night routes should have always had the N prefix to allow for future flexibility in matters like fares, if not routeing.
