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Two things: Firstly the trains are not necessarily more expensive. It's about £3.40 (from memory) from Brighton or London Road to Falmer and back, and £4.70 by bus. Secondly (and you perhaps didn't mean to include me but I'll answer as if you did) I didn't say that the travel companies "wouldn't...

The travel subsidy certainly makes it easier. As someone else has mentioned for the trains they just open the barriers and let people on; for the buses they just wave you through. If you had to buy your own tickets the travel companies would obviously have to enforce ticket checks to protect...

True. And just to prove I'm not one for sitting on fences when we were at Withdean and I used to walk I was opposed to the subsidy (or at least I thought those like myself who didn't use the vouchers should be able to exchange them for hot dogs). Now we're at the Amex and I use the 25 bus I...