[_] OT Bath Bristol commute (was thunder and lightning)
Tim Beadle
tim.beadle at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 16:18:59 BST 2006
On 18/08/06, Iwein Dekoninck <iwein at 3sixty.co.uk> wrote:
> I cannot believe that one cannot order tickets that don't have a date on
> them. I never really know when I'm going to take the train, and instead
> of budgeting 20 minutes of queuing, I'd be quite happy to keep 5 days
> worth in my wallet to use whenever I need them. But no, not possible.
>
> Try buying even a ticket for today, next Wednesday and Friday, say.
> You'd have to be lucky enough to find somebody that well sell them to
> you. The machines at Bath Spa are 'today only'. Grrr.
The whole season ticket apparatus is still geared towards a 9-5,
Monday-Friday working life. I would have thought that, with the
increase in teleworking & mixture of office/home working, a travel
credit system (like Oyster cards, I imagine - having never used one)
would be A Good Thing to introduce.
Still, it seems that as actually running a railway is somewhat too
much to ask, so innovation is probably pushing it ;)
Tim
> I cannot believe that one cannot order tickets that don't have a date on
> them. I never really know when I'm going to take the train, and instead
> of budgeting 20 minutes of queuing, I'd be quite happy to keep 5 days
> worth in my wallet to use whenever I need them. But no, not possible.
>
> Try buying even a ticket for today, next Wednesday and Friday, say.
> You'd have to be lucky enough to find somebody that well sell them to
> you. The machines at Bath Spa are 'today only'. Grrr.
The whole season ticket apparatus is still geared towards a 9-5,
Monday-Friday working life. I would have thought that, with the
increase in teleworking & mixture of office/home working, a travel
credit system (like Oyster cards, I imagine - having never used one)
would be A Good Thing to introduce.
Still, it seems that as actually running a railway is somewhat too
much to ask, so innovation is probably pushing it ;)
Tim