Alter train fees and no handling of tickets or smart cards.

Ditch the peak/offpeak logic applied to tickets for trains and let people commute to work over a broader range of times of the day all for the same rate. That way employers can be more flexible with their working hours, and those asked to work 9-5 dont get disproportionate travel costs compared to others who work say 10-6 or 8-3 or whatever. Revamp the multi-ticketing system too so that everyone can get 100% refunds without penalty charges for adapting their journeys.
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stop train staff handling tickets and/or smart cards to verify validity of the ticket.

Why the contribution is important

We all need to return to work eventually, but to encourage public transport use over a wider peak time period, we should scrap the different costs charged at different hours of the day. this could help to encourage safe use of public transport, reduce congestion on trains, and also avoid people switching to cars for journeys they can take by train.

We dont need to add to the risk of cross contamination by the train staff handling tickets for all on the train and then potentially transferring a virus from one ticket to the next, or from one smart-card to the next.

by Aly2020a on May 05, 2020 at 08:26PM

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