Learning from European Best Practice
Posted by jonathanfryer on Wednesday, 22nd April, 2009
Early this morning I was at Vauxhall bus station in the London borough of Lambeth, alongside Caroline Pidgeon (Member of the Greater London Assembly), Tom Brake MP (Carshalton and Wallington) and the target parliamentary seat LibDem PPCs, Chris Nicholson (Streatham) and Bridget Fox (Islington South). We were launching a campaign to introduce cheap one-hour bus tickets in London, which would enable bus passengers to transfer from one route to another within the space of 60 minutes, without having to buy a separate ticket for each section of their journey. Such timed transfer-type tickets are common in several continental cities and it’s amazing that this still isn’t the case in a cosmopolitan metropolis like London. But it is never too late to learn from our EU’s partners’ best practice!
Jonathan Fryer 
Edis said
Transfers are also common in cities in the USA. I was in Los Angeles on business one time and on a day off took a city bus from near Beverley Hills to the coast at Santa Monica and tranferred to another that ran into the country as far as Malibu Beach. The single ticket cost about $1.90 for the whole trip back in 1995 or so and on the return journey (same price) I used a concession with the ticket to get free entry into the Getty Art Museum.
Yes lots to learn from abroad….