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I think the speeds with a virtual safety car are lower than with a Safety car since no cars have to go faster than others in order to catch the safety car. There is much more risk of someone crossing or walking on the pavement of a public road being it by a car than there would have been to...

There was no need for a safety car at all. A virtual safety car would have been sufficient, since although a vehicle needed to enter the gravel trap to retrieve a car, a distinct lack of rain meant the risk of a Japan 2014 type tragedy was almost zero, with there being no rain and the addition...

The TfL is quite explicit in stating that this discount is only for journeys avoiding Zone 1. 1766789660 You'd just take the minimum sum of train times for the route and minus 5-10 minutes for added margin. Simples. Also, a prosecution would not need to be automated. The evidence of repeated...

The timings would be proof of fraud since the timings of the taps would not be possible without passing through Zone 1. TfL could even write some code to not provide the discount if there is too short a time between taps for the discounted route to have been taken.

I'm not complaining. I'm just seeing money going both ways for a single business exchange, with admin effort/costs from both sides on top, and wondering if a more efficient overall system could be created. Offering ticket exchanges for future dates rather than refunds reduces the risk of fraud...

Probably because people aren't using the delay repay. An hourly connection means on average I get over 10% of my ticket expenditure back via delay repay. This helps me, but is it fair on everyone else? Or perhaps my route should have express buses at a greater frequency than the train to stop...

The amount of money given in compensation, plus the associated admin costs, minus the additional revenue produced through delay repay making rail more attractive, minus the costs associated with catering for the extra demand produced. So a rather simple way to model that would be that, for...

Passengers would pay less, since the savings would be used to cut ticket prices. Or in other words, Delay Repay was a trick by politicians to become more popular, and its costs to the industry will have increased calls to raise ticket prices to reduce the rail subsidy. 1761918964 Bus companies...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #14 originally in this thread. Seems like it would be better to make all tickets non-refundable, scrap delay repay and reduce ticket prices to make it subsidy neutral. Removes a risk of fraud and gets rid of a whole lot of admin for both the industry and passengers.

I think the existing Cambridge Station should be renamed Cambridge South (it's quite a long walk south from the centre), and the new station named Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Quicker / more reliable journeys should reduce costs and/or raise extra revenue.

I thought there was an extra hourly LNER to north of York service being added anyway? Are the LNER services not busier South of York than North?

What about having Crosscountry run no further north than York and no further south than Basingstoke, and having connections with services to/from London which would otherwise empty as they travel further from London. So making the network work in a more efficient way by recycling spare capacity...