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Post by snoggle on Mar 4, 2016 10:46:52 GMT
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Post by T.R. on Mar 4, 2016 15:53:26 GMT
Good news for Swanley pax. Dartford zone perhaps?
I wouldn't be too surprised if Oyster reached Sevenoaks by next year.
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Post by jay38a on Mar 4, 2016 23:15:29 GMT
Good news for Swanley pax. Dartford zone perhaps? I wouldn't be too surprised if Oyster reached Sevenoaks by next year. Joins Dartford in Zone 8. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2016 9:37:00 GMT
Good news for Swanley pax. Dartford zone perhaps? I wouldn't be too surprised if Oyster reached Sevenoaks by next year. They are considering for Sevenoaks to be part of Greater London in the future, and if that happens, Oyster will obviously be extended there, but this will be a long time anyway because it needs a lot of planning. |
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Post by vjaska on Mar 6, 2016 11:16:33 GMT
Good news for Swanley pax. Dartford zone perhaps? I wouldn't be too surprised if Oyster reached Sevenoaks by next year. They are considering for Sevenoaks to be part of Greater London in the future, and if that happens, Oyster will obviously be extended there, but this will be a long time anyway because it needs a lot of planning. Whose extending the Greater London border? I bet you Sevenoaks residents won't want to join as part of London considering that many in Croydon & Bromley try to foolishly regard themselves as part of Surrey & Kent - sorry but you live in a London borough whilst Surrey & Kent's borders retracted to where they are now years ago. |
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Post by twobellstogo on Mar 6, 2016 11:47:09 GMT
Good news for Swanley pax. Dartford zone perhaps? I wouldn't be too surprised if Oyster reached Sevenoaks by next year. They are considering for Sevenoaks to be part of Greater London in the future, and if that happens, Oyster will obviously be extended there, but this will be a long time anyway because it needs a lot of planning. I think you're getting things mixed up : there hasn't been any plans for Greater London to swallow up Sevenoaks, but rumours about an Oyster extension there have been around for a while. The last expansion plan I've heard of, and apologies for off topicness, was a proposal from Kingston to absorb parts of North Elmbridge, around Molesey and Thames Ditton, but that was getting on for 25 years ago, and clearly nothing's happened! |
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Post by snoggle on Mar 6, 2016 12:07:23 GMT
They are considering for Sevenoaks to be part of Greater London in the future, and if that happens, Oyster will obviously be extended there, but this will be a long time anyway because it needs a lot of planning. I think you're getting things mixed up : there hasn't been any plans for Greater London to swallow up Sevenoaks, but rumours about an Oyster extension there have been around for a while. The last expansion plan I've heard of, and apologies for off topicness, was a proposal from Kingston to absorb parts of North Elmbridge, around Molesey and Thames Ditton, but that was getting on for 25 years ago, and clearly nothing's happened! The Mayor has the ability to influence rail services in an area which is wider / larger than the Greater London administrative area. This wider area was added to the Mayor's powers during Ken's time and allows TfL to add to / take away from franchise scopes. None of this involves a change in the council / local authority administrative areas. It is also worth adding that extending Oyster to Swanley and Dartford was a "reasonable endeavours" obligation in the extended South Eastern franchise and amazingly it's been delivered. It is quite clear that the local rail user group at Sevenoaks really do want Oyster extended to Sevenoaks but I think that's a fair while away - linked to TfL taking over South Eastern inner suburban services. I doubt it would mean Sevenoaks moving into the zones either - it may remain a South Eastern controlled station and for pricing purposes (as happened with Shenfield which remained with Greater Anglia). This document has a couple of maps that show where the wider boundary is for South Eastern and West Anglia. Both areas now have Oyster ticketing extended in to them but not yet to Sevenoaks. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2016 18:52:44 GMT
They are considering for Sevenoaks to be part of Greater London in the future, and if that happens, Oyster will obviously be extended there, but this will be a long time anyway because it needs a lot of planning. I think you're getting things mixed up : there hasn't been any plans for Greater London to swallow up Sevenoaks, but rumours about an Oyster extension there have been around for a while. The last expansion plan I've heard of, and apologies for off topicness, was a proposal from Kingston to absorb parts of North Elmbridge, around Molesey and Thames Ditton, but that was getting on for 25 years ago, and clearly nothing's happened! I was going off topic a bit myself, but I saw it a while back on the BBC London News and Inside Out London. They were talking about extending to Sevenoaks and also Dartford. I couldn't find information on extending out to Sevenoaks but I did for Dartford if people want to see an article. www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/dartford-to-be-london-borough-30623/ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 17:20:37 GMT
Is it true that back in the early 1970's what was then Staines (now Staines-Upon-Thames) had the chance to be a part of Greater London but the council then responsible for Staines turned down the opportunity.
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