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335B replied to the thread Should there be discretion on Delay Repay thresholds?.An unduly high de minimis would make such a judgment by extension, based on the fare - if set at £5, a £9.95 fare would be excluded for...
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335B replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.Retailers aren't to blame. But they're a convenient scapegoat for firms that haven't sorted their revenue protection out - and short...
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335B replied to the thread Might the Whitehaven tunnel issues result in closure? Could Whitehaven be brought back into use? And other speculation on this issue....The link didn't work for me - after fiddling round, I found that...
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335B replied to the thread Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon.And I'd go to the Range over either.
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335B replied to the thread Should there be discretion on Delay Repay thresholds?.And if this is outsourced, the existing limited incentives on TOCs to get it right will be weakened further. All of the benefits...
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335B replied to the thread Should there be discretion on Delay Repay thresholds?.A de minimis is reasonable, but £5 is too high - the system needs to acknowledge the value of time even on short journeys. A £1...
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335B replied to the thread Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now.And also difficult to trace if the paper goes AWOL. Which kind of makes me think of any number of eticket related threads...
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335B replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.Hard disagree. Revenue protection has both a cost and a value. The cost is easily measured in pay and materials, the gain much harder...
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335B replied to the thread Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you.It depends on the business - a stray greengrocer's apostrophe may irritate the hell out of me, but I generally associate it with...
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335B replied to the thread Wheelchair passengers should be able to travel for free.True - but the flip side of that is that the definition of "disabled" is moving and many (myself included) struggle with it's breadth...
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335B replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.I'd suggest that, if this is a general issue, the answer should be to put a de-minimus amount on where contactless payment is available.
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335B replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.@yorkie has described the policy. The point of it, which has been broadly consistent since Alasdair Darling was at Transport, is to...
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335B replied to the thread Reform UK discussion.I've been wondering about this. I suspect his playbook is to win this, then use that result to be able to tell the MPs who will be...
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335B replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.TOCs need to decide whether their priority is selling tickets, or enforcing conditions. You could make the railway more or less iron...
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335B replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.Not necessarily - I've just purchased a split ticket combination that includes a single from Ely - Cambridge North as part of a much...