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Re: Spend New Year in London !

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From: surbitonian
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:03
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:07:14 +0000, Ian Jelf
<ian@bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <3c2a6340.4916226@news.freeserve.net>, Neil Williams
><wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk> writes
>>Many of the German Verkehrsverbuende sell passes (not normal tickets)
>>which are explicitly marked as being transferable (e.g. monthly passes
>>at a slightly higher rate than the normal ones for which a photocard
>>is not required).
>I have seen that done *somewhere* in Britain, too, but for the life of
>me I can't remember where.

Well, it used to be done in Brighton, by Brighton & Hove.  I don't
think they do it any more.  I wondered about the adverts - all about
"legal fare dodging"!

By the way, in Zurich the Regenbogen (monthly/annual rail + bus +
everything, in the Swiss tradition!) transferable and not transferable
are the same price, with different conditions as Gunnar Thoele said
elsewhere in this thread...

Richard.
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From: surbitonian@genie.co.uk
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Subject: Re: Spend New Year in London !
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:03:15 +0000
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