Thanks. The note includes:
Thus season tickets are not allocated, but count as "around" 480 journeys on the date of purchase (for an annual). Given it was a strike day, I find it difficult to believe that anyone (or at least more than a very few people) bought a season ticket that day.
There is a dichotomy here as its not only office block construction but companies are still leasing office space as well yet seem content to allow hybrid/flexible working. It is the latter arrangements that have taken a scythe to season ticket revenue however i always told that the high peak was extremely expensive to run so surely part of the answer is to remove the resources that deliver that element.
London Underground has peak fares in both the morning and afternoon peak, other than in Zone 1 where it is effectively always peak and into Zone 1 in the afternoon peak.
Check the single fare finder.
Check the single fare finder.
Right, but your off peak fares will have to increase substantially to balance reductions in fares at peak time.
Are there any passenger rail systems in the world which make an operating profit (exclude metros)? I admit this is hard to answer because of how costs are shared with freight, whether to include pension liabilities etc. And it probably needs a separate thread!
Granted but high peak has been chopped off or as BoJo said flatten the sombrero so that should allow a reduction in resources especially one journey only trains with unproductive crews. Thameslink had largely moved to a standard timetable all day long in May 2018 on the core routes the peak hour extras were to serve the like of E.Grinstead and Littlehampton for political/historical reasons and really should be abandoned now. I would have thought once the 701's are in use SWR has the opportunity to follow the Thameslink model and construct a standard interval timetable without the need for rush hour additionals. With the flexibility now gifted to employees they will soon adapt their travelling patterns if trains are too busy.
Because the cycle of planning, construction and lease is considerably longer than the pandemic timescales.
Not just at Waterloo - a huge amount of money was spent extending platforms from eight-car to ten-car length throughout the SWR inner suburban area. Many of which are presumably served only by eight car trains again, following the scrapping of all the 456s and the departure of many of the 707s.
An incentive for companies to move into new premises is lower operating costs of new constructs, and the new constructs are a cleansheet approach for incorporating the backbone IT hardware during fitting out. The grief of adapting 30 year old buildings for the latest purposes was an IT Dept horror story. Still leaves the problem of obsolete buildings without tenants
I'm not sure where you get either of these ideas from. Waterloo for example has pretty much a full timetable starting from around 0600 heading out of London. Admittedly a slightly later start than in bound but certainly not by much
I was thinking primarily about Victoria to the Sussex Coast. The full pattern of four coastal trains an hour doesn't happen until 8am and the first few Southern departures are formed of 4 coaches (although there are 12-car Gatwick Express services to Brighton).
Yes, agreed. What I meant was that actual 'off-peak' fares don't kick in until later. The anytime fares are, as you say, only slightly more in the morning peak once travelling a certain distance from London in the former NSE area.
I can also see a slow erosion over time, people such as myself will not go back to spending time and mmoney commuting where its not needed unless I am compensated for it, and as happened with me (Either give me a rate increase or almost 100% WFH as the alternative) the company were quick to opt for the WFH unless its a face to face meeting or hands on with hardware. This will happen more and more, and new start companies will see corporate offices occupied Tuesday to Thursday as a waste of resources. and will probably go for much smaller metting room type facilities. Really if you take the big picture commuting for the sake of it rather than to a job which requires you to be hands on is wasteful of resources and long term will be consigned to the history books for a lot of people as technology creeps into more and more areas of daily life
At the moment with low unemployment, workers can call the shots. If things go downhill so that unemployment starts rising significantly, I can see that changing.
I suspect there will be some long term changes in the way things work. Given the current status quo people will gravitate towards the lower cost areas of the country if there is nothing to keep them in the high cost areas like family etc. It may not be a rush, but it will be a trickle. There has been a history of population moves, the one we all learnt about in school was the Industrial Revolution so the history is there.
