SUBURBAN TRAIN FARES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1926, Page 8

SUBURBAN TRAIN FARES

(To thi Editor.)

Sir,—l wa# interested to Jearn in the reply of the "Railway Department to your correspondent '"Curious," in last evening's ''Post," that the authorities were anxious "to encourage the use of the (twelve-trip) ticket by those who could not afford to pay the larger lump sum for a fifty-trip ticket." Now, Sir, how does that policy compare with the railway charges for suburban season tickets (vide pfiges 153 and 154 of the time-table)? Take the tcn-milo rate. The charge for a second-class monthly ticket is £1 4s, sd. It' the purchaser bought a quarterly ticket, he would save 10s 9d; on a half-yearly ticket the saving would be £1 14s; on a yearly ticket the saving would be no less than £4 3s 7d. On a first-class ticket the saving would be £1, £2 15s 7d, and £6 16s 3d respectively. Tho management surely is all for the man who can put dowa "the larger lump Bum." It seems to, mo that the users of the ordinary and monthly tickets are currying more tttan their fair share of the burden.' —I am, etc., CURIOUS No. 2. 10th November.