Oyster prices the same as paper ticketing, where is the digital dividend of administration ?
Oyster prices the same as paper ticketing
if you go down and check the table for travel prices on the page above, you will see the offpeak oyster daily price cap is the same as buying an offpeak paper ticket, with the paper ticket having the advantage you dont get clobbered financially if you acciddentally forget to check in and out ?
So where is the digital dividend of a cheaper to administer system for those that have gone oyster ? Its no doubt being hoovered up like cocaine, between the pathetic PPI debacle and wages for tfl people who skulk behind doors and stand in puffer jackets next to an automatic gating systems, looking gormless waiting to answer the odd query. If there isn’t a reduction in staff requirements through implementing the oyster system, then where is the saving in having implemented it. To be honest I’d be better off going back to paper no risk of being overcharged on missing a gate or going through the wrong gate open gate at an unattended station.
The london underground system is overpriced under maintained saddled with ppi parasites private corporate middleware bloat vehicles, who have swallowed vast sums of money leaving TFL with little service improvement, bloated public sector debts that must be gouged from the traveller, riddled with union power nuts like bob crow, who would see the thing bled to death financially, just so that his members guarantee a certain standard of living they perceive they are entitled too by human right, when many other work sectors are much worse off. Unions serve a purpose but when they become to entrenched in their sense of inalienable rights and power, they can no longer lean on the public for support in their actions.
Which of the two claws of attack the ppi or the unions, is pincering tfl to death is an interesting question. To be honest in and automated system, the people present within the undergound should only be there to maintain, the safety and smooth operating of the system, having people stand or sit next to the machines that have replaced their jobs, doesn’t really make allot of sense, its a waste of public money let alone the peoples lives involved.
Also noted recently that my journey through Kings cross has been delayed by unnecessary escalator closures, and walking reroutes, for the install of disabled elevators ? unnecessary in the sense of when i look at whats been closed I can see no way in which the closure of said escalator is benefiting anyone ?
No doubt some twat in europe has mandated the entire underground network must be retrofitted to enable the wheelchair bound to navigate it with ease, with no regard as to the millions and millions of pounds extra that must be allocated in the massively debt laden budget of the tfl to accomodate such a small usership, when all busses have been fitted to offer wheelchair access, wheelchairs users on the underground, might even pose a safety hazard themselves in the case of an emergency.
how can motors dropping off cost this much money to repair, someone here must be gouging allot of profit and personal wealth ?
a good link that sums up the various bullshit privatisations of tfl is listed here :