Rail groups ordered to cut fares for commuters (The Times)

[Paul Weaver]

> Last month the big drop in mortgage costs pushed RPI down to 0.1 per
> cent, the lowest since 1960. Leading economists predict that by July
> RPI will be between minus 2 and minus 3 per cent, which would mean
> fares falling by 1 or 2 per cent. The cost of the average annual
> season ticket for journeys of 11 to 25 miles, currently £1,972, would
> fall by either £20 or £40.

Wow, upto 75p a week, or (factoring in normal holidays), 17p per day.

> Lord Adonis has reminded rail bosses that if they default on payments
> for one franchise the parent company will have to surrender control of
> all its franchises.

I can't take anyone who calls himself "Adonis" -- "an allusion to an
extremely attractive, youthful male, often with a connotation of
deserved vanity"

[Abigail Brady]

On Feb 25, 8:03 am, Paul Weaver <paul.weaver...@***************> wrote:
> I can't take anyone who calls himself "Adonis" -- "an allusion to an
> extremely attractive, youthful male, often with a connotation of
> deserved vanity"

That's a bit harsh: it is his actual surname (his father being a Greek
Cypriot).

--
Abi

[tshanazt]

On 25 Feb, 05:22, AndyPandy <andrewher...@***********.uk> wrote:
> Rail groups ordered to cut fares for commuters

Is that "commuters" as in meedja-speak for "rail users generally" or
is it as in "commuters"?
If it is the latter would it be a worthy thing to cut their fares
given that regular commuters can usually purchase deeply discounted
season tickets despite their giving rise to the frequent huge cost
burden of sets which in some cases are only needed for two to three
hours a day, five days a week. It's a shame that the assumptions of a
few decades ago which projected far more leisure time, working without
the need to commute nearly as much and less focus on "9 to 5" regimes
have since proved largely ill-founded and we have become enormously
more work-obsessed than when these (what seemed at the time to be
perfectly reasonable) predictions were made. Please discuss.

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gordon