Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Highwood Man wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:36 am I've just read an article in the Evening Standard that says that Sadiq Khan is planning to axe One Day Travelcards on the tubes and buses with effect from January.

This seems like another crazy idea to me. Surely we should be encouraging people to come into central London by public transport rather than discouraging them from doing so by making it more expensive.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:52 am You can just use your contactless card now, a paper Travelcard is redundant.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:31 pm

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:52 am You can just use your contactless card now, a paper Travelcard is redundant.

Except it isn't if you live in zone 6, and travel by train. I travel with my son and use a Friends and Family Railcard.
The cost for my trip to Brizzie will go from £12.90 to £16.60
Thanks a lot Khan!

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:35 pm

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:31 pm

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:52 am You can just use your contactless card now, a paper Travelcard is redundant.

Except it isn't if you live in zone 6, and travel by train. I travel with my son and use a Friends and Family Railcard.
The cost for my trip to Brizzie will go from £12.90 to £16.60
Thanks a lot Khan!

I have travelled from zone 6 to a game many times using contactless, costs about a fiver return.

Sounds like you're doing something wrong.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:42 pm

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:35 pm

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:31 pm
Except it isn't if you live in zone 6, and travel by train. I travel with my son and use a Friends and Family Railcard.
The cost for my trip to Brizzie will go from £12.90 to £16.60
Thanks a lot Khan!

I have travelled from zone 6 to a game many times using contactless, costs about a fiver return.

Sounds like you're doing something wrong.

Contactless Zone 6 to Zone 1 single is peak £9.40 off peak £6.40. The only way to do it cheaper is to avoid zone 1 which is then peak £5.10 or off peak £3.50. This is not practical where I live, especially on evening kick offs.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:42 pm

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:35 pm

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:31 pm
Except it isn't if you live in zone 6, and travel by train. I travel with my son and use a Friends and Family Railcard.
The cost for my trip to Brizzie will go from £12.90 to £16.60
Thanks a lot Khan!

I have travelled from zone 6 to a game many times using contactless, costs about a fiver return.

Sounds like you're doing something wrong.

Contactless Zone 6 to Zone 1 single is peak £9.40 off peak £6.40. The only way to do it cheaper is to avoid zone 1 which is then peak £5.10 or off peak £3.50. This is not practical where I live, especially on evening kick offs.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:51 pm

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:42 pm

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:35 pm
I have travelled from zone 6 to a game many times using contactless, costs about a fiver return.

Sounds like you're doing something wrong.

Contactless Zone 6 to Zone 1 single is peak £9.40 off peak £6.40. The only way to do it cheaper is to avoid zone 1 which is then peak £5.10 or off peak £3.50. This is not practical where I live, especially on evening kick offs.

But Leyton isnt in zone 1.

ChorizO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 12:04 pm

Highwood Man wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:36 am I've just read an article in the Evening Standard that says that Sadiq Khan is planning to axe One Day Travelcards on the tubes and buses with effect from January.

This seems like another crazy idea to me. Surely we should be encouraging people to come into central London by public transport rather than discouraging them from doing so by making it more expensive.

No point living in the past. He is pushing progress which is logical and sensible. In fact, he is making decisions for tomorrow and not today.

A politician of our times.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:00 pm You really are a juvenille lot aren't you. I live in Zone 6 and to get to Leyton and have to go via zone 1, unless I want a 45 minute detour.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:00 pm Why? What station are you starting from?

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:08 pm I was born in Walthamstow, and have lived all round London. Orient is the only club I support and have been going since 1980. I currently live in Kenley, but can use Upper Warlingham as well. The point of public transport is to move people arround effciently and at a reasonable cost. Bear in mind all the fares quoted are before the no doubt inflation busting rise that will happen in January. It is probably true that it is probably cheaper to drive, but that kind of defeats the point doesn't it.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:08 pm I was born in Walthamstow, and have lived all round London. Orient is the only club I support and have been going since 1980. I currently live in Kenley, but can use Upper Warlingham as well. The point of public transport is to move people arround effciently and at a reasonable cost. Bear in mind all the fares quoted are before the no doubt inflation busting rise that will happen in January. It is probably true that it is probably cheaper to drive, but that kind of defeats the point doesn't it.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:26 pm Yes I will hit the PAYG cap as I sometimes have to get a bus as the trains are so crap from Purley, but I will no longer be able to use the Friends and Family pass which I get discount for the whole ticket.

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:08 pm I was born in Walthamstow, and have lived all round London. Orient is the only club I support and have been going since 1980. I currently live in Kenley, but can use Upper Warlingham as well. The point of public transport is to move people arround effciently and at a reasonable cost. Bear in mind all the fares quoted are before the no doubt inflation busting rise that will happen in January. It is probably true that it is probably cheaper to drive, but that kind of defeats the point doesn't it.

HenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:44 pm

KenleyO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:08 pm I was born in Walthamstow, and have lived all round London. Orient is the only club I support and have been going since 1980. I currently live in Kenley, but can use Upper Warlingham as well. The point of public transport is to move people arround effciently and at a reasonable cost. Bear in mind all the fares quoted are before the no doubt inflation busting rise that will happen in January. It is probably true that it is probably cheaper to drive, but that kind of defeats the point doesn't it.

I grew up living in Kenley