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"Their on-street parking"? They don't own the road. Even immediately outside their house. We should stop pandering to motorists' belief that they do. We should also challenge their belief that nobody subsidises them and therefore they shouldn't be expected to subsidise more sustainable modes...

Maybe someone more patient than me will reel off the list of European cities smaller than Manchester - many of them substantially smaller - that have metros (by which I mean actual, high capacity, high frequency underground railway networks, as distinct from trams branded as metros). And try to...

Yeah, some of those fares undercut the Gravesend to St Pancras route Plus High Speed fares (and the contactless equivalents when they come) by quite a bit. I can understand doing this. What I object to is saying it would be impractical to tell ticket office staff, but that this is okay because...

If there's a desire to move to a booked train only system (which I don't support), advances need to be (a) renamed and (b) regulated. By which I mean the prices and the quotas. If GBR doesn't want flexible fares as a de facto cap on advance fares, it must not be allowed to move to a complete...

Well, quite. Just because a station in London is in zone 3, doesn't necessarily mean it can't be in zone 4 as well. Nobody would complain about that. But if you tried telling people in Todmorden they were in both Yorkshire and Lancashire, you'd be braver than me!

Only if you assume only the person making the journey benefits from the journey being made, or from it being made by train instead of car, which is not generally the case. If they're travelling to do work, for example, somebody benefits because the work is done. If they're travelling by train...

If best doesn't mean cheapest then it doesn't mean anything.

Just sharing some further correspondence with Southeastern about the detrimental changes to mapped routes between Dartford and London: Quite a good response by general TOC customer services standards, I would say. I remain unimpressed but I am doubtful much else can be done. The local rail...

True, but equally, splitting can sometimes allow you to take a route that wouldn't be a valid route on a through ticket from your origin to your destination.

Having looked a bit more closely at this map, if we can all agree on anything, how about this: No public transport area or PAYG scheme should ever have a boundary that takes in one half of High Wycombe but not the other?

Actually, in light of this, I am keen that it takes as long as possible for these fares to be Ovalled ('Ovalised'?). I travel on this route on a weekday evening more often than I make anything other than a day return trip. Evening peak restrictions on paper tickets on the Elizabeth Line would...

It may well be. Post amended.

They'd rather sell these tickets than no ticket. I think the idea, though, is that their ticket offices in particular would sell a lot of extra route Any Permitted tickets if they didn't have to offer the cheaper TOC-restricted tickets, which would earn them 5% commission on a higher fare, plus...

This is the sort of thing that happens when the Ministry of Housing and Local Government decides your county doesn't exist anymore (but, oddly, the district of West Berkshire does).

Indeed, I'm not calling for direct services to a greater range of destinations, I'm calling for a reliable service to a greater range of destinations. It's not the requirement to change trains that's a problem, it's the headways which mean it's an hour wait if a train is cancelled or a...

I would be delighted if the single fares could be reduced to half the current day return, and one could then choose between tickets or PAYG (one may give an off-peak fare and the other not, depending when you're travelling, and sadly TfL have still not solved the problem of PAYG and Network and...

Yeah, this is what I don't get. I had to get from York to Hartlepool recently and it struck me that what places like Sunderland or Hartlepool need isn't necessarily infrequent, direct intercity services to London slotted into whatever ECML paths are available, it's the ability to go anywhere at...

I don't know much about it. Passenger open access has no role to play, is what I should have said. I would expect GBR to have a high degree of control over paths and timetabling.

I agree with this. I draw from it the exact opposite conclusion you do. Depends how keen you are on dealing with organisations that have an aggressive yield management strategy directed at you, I suppose. I would very much prefer the railway to required to deliver against targets to increase...