What it "causes" is people being able to travel whenever they need to travel. Peak overcrowding or empty trains at other times are a reflection of people's schedules more than ticket prices.https://twitter.com/uncriticalsimon/status/940618887657414656 …
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Notice the assumption here: "If we fuck with prices enough we can force people to travel at times that are inconvenient for their itineraries." Two questions: 1: can we? do countries like the UK *not* experience peak crowding? 2: do we want to? I prefer crowds to price gouging
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Replying to @380kmh
Peak pricing is Britain's way of attempting to cope with it. And also their way of trying to fill empty off-peak trains. Rather than America which lets them sit in the sidings.
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We don't do that, though...we run trains according to their timetable regardless of how full they are. If a run is consistently empty they'll adjust the timetable accordingly. Moreover, our intercity trains DO charge more if the trains fill up. Result: chronically empty.
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Is the goal to move lots of people, at their convenience? Or is the goal for all the people rich enough to afford to travel at will to be able to take up three seats?
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Anyway: the country which I was using as an example for charging flat rates is Japan, not the USA. Obviously they get crowded in the peaks--just like they do, despite shenanigans, in the UK. But they're more popular off-peak than in UK too, as far as I know.
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I used America because most of their commuter lines simply don't run off-peak at all.
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For sure, although charging twice as much for rush hour tickets would not change that state of affairs.
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