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Originally Posted by muppet
And now for the cherry on top - for this, all this, you're paying the most expensive travel pricing in the world. Mile on mile London transport works out more than Concorde did.
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Sorry, I don't believe you a bit there.
The Metropolitan Line (Is this the longest in London?) is 67km from end to end. A cash fare is £4 (and Oyster fare £3.50)
The concord between London and New York is 5585km. At the cash fare of the Metropolitan line, that would make the trip £332 (£292 for Oyster fare)
Quite cheaper than the standard fare of a single journey by concord between London and NY at just under £4000!
Now, of cause, if you look at a single journey between two stations of only a km in between then yes, it will cost more than a concorde trip. However, that is the case almost everywhere in the world. The cheapest fare on Frankfurt's U-bahn is £1.30 (slightly cheaper than London's cheapest Tube fare of £1.50 with Oyster), yet it is still more expensive in Frankfurt to travel 1km on the U-bahn than the Concorde (when comparing distances) - like almost everywhere else on earth.
Funny thing is, in most cases you will find that dramatic statistics are often far from reality. They are designed to shock people who don't bother to check things up.
By the way, although it is slightly more expensive for the cheapest London fare on the Tube over Frankfurt. That £1.50 fare will get you further than the £1.30 fare in Frankfurt.