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The idea of PAYG is quite deliberately that this won’t work. AGV to CDF (and CPW to CDF) always had more much nor expensive fares than other Cardiff region stations of similar distance. WG & TfW have long acknowledged that this is unfair. But also that it is rather difficult to do anything...

Friday night *and* Saturday night is when decent Metro services run all through the night...

https://www.iwa.wales/wp-content/media/2011/02/iwa-metroreport.pdf This is the South Wales Metro. For sure, there have been previous ideas, and Mark has acknowledged lots of others. But it was this report that was explicitly acknowledged by the Welsh government and Senedd when they decided to...

What governments like to call a business case isn’t necessarily the same as the plain English meaning of it. I don’t have UK gov or NR project planing frameworks at hand, but for Welsh transport projects the relevant stages are called: 1: Strategic Outline Business Case 2: Outline Business...

I‘d agree. I wonder if there’s any strategy? Given the limited I‘d though prioritising which services‘ passengers would benefit most, would be useful? Or which service would benefit most operationally?

I think that depends on your baseline? The original (pre-covid) numbers are of course of no use anymore. Since then TfW has repeatedly replanned, and of course had cash injections by the Welsh Government.

The TfW PAYG zones are really bonkers. Zone 1 extends all the way to Newport, while up near the Heads of the Valleys they come in thick and fast. If you draw them geographically on a map you’ll see. And the zones for the normal fares are also bonkers. But literally the other way round: 3 zones...

Firstly the Metro proposal suggest 4tph at all stations. WG have confirmed to MCC that this includes AGV, STJ, CDT and CPW. Though it is accepted that this is a long-term aspiration, and quite frankly the proposed 2tph will be sufficient for the local service for quite a while. Two separate...

I believe TfW does get some penalty payments from CAF, and they do help with TfW financial position, but they feel they don’t make CAF improve. And reputation does matter. I think it was Alsthom that won quite a few of early privatisation contracts, but then nothing for a while because their...

Well orbital routes in particular rely on good interchange to make them successful...

Well, Rheinbahn and Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft are jointly operating the route between Düsseldorf and Duisburg since 1940 - but that's a tram route, not a bus...

I thought the West of England rail plans propose some additional services between Bristol and Worcester? One of Mark Barry's Metro papers makes exactly that point, that with a railway station you could have more valuable businesses there Which is of course also proposed. Well in my view...

The proposed train service is 2tph Cardiff-Bristol and 2tph Cardiff-Cheltenham. The 2tph Cardiff-Bristol is additional to the current trains, and will allow those to be speeded up - probably Newport only, though there may be a case for some to stop at STJ as there’s a fair amount of travel...

That reminded me of a trip from Manchester to Newport a couple of years ago that got cancelled as both toilets weren’t working. Everyone then piled on the following two-car 150, which then was so crushed that it was quite impossible to get to the toilet unless you happened to stand right next to it…

yep, it would have to be a new service, from the station, either via Severn Beach or a new connection to the new A49 junction, into the industrial estate probably as far down as Avonmouth.

TfW‘s plans for 5 new stations on the SWML also propose additional stopping services between Cardiff and Bristol (hourly or half-hourly according to the then consultation), those are the services that could stop there. Severnnet have recently started to talk to stakeholders about improved...

I was on the 1607 from AGV to NWP yesterday. It was a five coach train (3+2). The aircon in the 2 coach one wasn’t working. But it was fine in the 3 coach one, and through the connection still acceptable quite a way into the the other one. The last coach though was bowling. This morning the...

I don’t think it is possible to link railcard discounts to a bank card. I mean, how would that work? Anyone could use that bank card. With Oystercards it is much easier as, e.g., the 11-15 Oystercard is a photo card. I think the only way for TfW to do discounts is to do something similar...

This had certainly been suggested to TfW since at least when they first raised the then proposed PAYG system in stakeholder consultations IIRC they quickly agreed to it, but warned that it is unlikely ready for the start of PAYG. Now there was at least one person on a stakeholder call who...

FWIW this has been raised with TfW. And TfW already also manages the bus concessionary cards and the mytravelpass cards