From A To B

A return ticket from Lanchester to Durham (20 minutes each way) has long cost more than a return ticket from Lanchester to Newcastle (one hour each way), even though both services are provided by the same company. But now even a region-wide day ticket, which would enable one to complete both return journies on a single day, is cheaper than a Lanchester to Durham return.

Just how much of the cost of public transport is to pay for the administration of that cost? Rather a lot, I suspect. Public transport should be free at the point of use. If we can afford the Iraq War, or the "renewal" of Trident, or to bankroll the corrupt and anti-democractic institutions of the EU, then we could afford this.