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I was discussing with somebody today public transport in London in particular.
Whenever speaking to somebody with an ‘Eco’ mind we are told that we should use bikes or public transport. This would stand to reason as, as most of us know, the roads nowadays are beyond capacity.
So okay, we go to our local train station and get a train to London … for over £10! Get a couple one hundred people on that train and you’re talking £1000 per journey!
The figure stays ludicrous even if you’re looking at a short journey. A single ticket from Egham to Staines will cost you near enough £3 – one stop!
And the pricey just keep rising.
The National Rail ‘officials’ state that the Oyster Card is the main key to budgeting around trains when using them frequently, but they fail to expand the area of the card’s influence, leaving some customers paying for the extortionate train tickets even when they’ve got themselves the highly recommended Oyster.
So public transport is extorting the public. Cars are too many and too expensive to run (that’s a story for another day). Bikes … let’s not even comment on bikes and their riders for now.
The gist – How much money do they think everybody is earning?!
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DREWE 
It used to be that no one was using the trains so the prices went up to try to make some money which drove even more passengers away. Unfortunately with petrol prices everyone reverted to trains again to the point where they now say they cannot cope with the passenger numbers so put the prices up to deter them!! There’s no winning that argument!! If a government was serious about reducing road traffic especially lorries then rail travel has to be subsidised and capacity increased but these railway lines are hundreds of years old unlike most modern countries, and we don’t have space to expand so it is a dilema. Sometimes train travel seems a bargain but when you have to pay over £100 to go to Wales for example it’s a joke.
Mixed messages there, no easy answer.If people pay the charges then the price is right, supply and demand??
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