Transport Levy....£30 confirmed as per NSC exclusive

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I haven't got a massive problem with it, however bearing in mind that 2 adults a senior and 2 kids we park at the uni. Now while I don't expect them to take the full amount off would be nice if the club reflected the extra charge in the price of that parking. As between us we will be paying an extra £105

Didn't Insider say a few posts above yours that the club would reflect the levy in the pricing of parking? I took that to mean they would reduce the cost of parking because your season tickets will have gone up in price.

 

[8ace]

I take it the 1901 club members won't have to pay any more?

 

[Titus]

Can you not buy a ticket to the edge of the zone and then use the travel voucher/season ticket/whatever from there?

Yes.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Really don't understand why everyone keeps saying its stealing from the club? LB said earlier he assumes the club pay a lump sum to the train companies to run extra trains, aren't all the trains scheduled anyway? If southern aren't collecting vouchers not sure how they can charge any more?

The club is paying out lump sums to the bus and train companies to transport the fans but part of it was supposed to be offset by fans buying and using travel vouchers. Hypothetically it could cost the club £35 per season per fan for transportation costs of which £30 in Travel Vouchers would mean a £5 subsidy , thousands are just waving their ST's at bus drivers and railway employees so the club incurs subsidising them 100%

 

[Lord Bracknell]

aren't all the trains scheduled anyway?

No. Quite a lot of the trains are matchday extra trains, employing additional staff. Southern will require their extra costs to be met.

 

[Ernest]

No. Quite a lot of the trains are matchday extra trains, employing additional staff. Southern will require their extra costs to be met.

As we said to all those boasting about not paying for their travel has affected everyone who now have to pay the £30

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I take it the 1901 club members won't have to pay any more?

The 1901 price is fixed for 5 years and the package includes either a parking space or travel vouchers, so no.

You ask a good question though. Given 1901ers are FORCED to have a parking space or vouchers I presume those that do not use either will be joining Beach Hut's forthcoming litigation against the club.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The 1901 price is fixed for 5 years and the package includes either a parking space or travel vouchers, so no.

You ask a good question though. Given 1901ers are FORCED to have a parking space or vouchers I presume those that do not use either will be joining Beach Hut's forthcoming litigation against the club.

A class action lawsuit

 

[Lord Bracknell]

An off peak return to falmer from Eastbourne costs £8.50 and one to Lewes costs £7.10. Therefore you save £1.40 a time which is 10p more than £1.30 - so you're slightly ahead!

The more pedantic might argue that if we get promoted to the Prem, the travel will work out at £1.57 a game so you'll be 17p down!

Anyone travelling regularly on a Saturday from east of Lewes to Falmer will be using a Railcard (if they are sensible). This means that the comparison that needs to be made is between the Off Peak Railcard Return fares to Falmer and Lewes. Do that comparison and you will see that using a ticket to Lewes plus a Travel Voucher is MORE expensive at the moment than just buying a rail ticket to Falmer.

If you can use a Young Person's Railcard or a Senior Railcard, the same applies for evening games - not for Network Railcard holders, though (where a minimum fare applies on Mondays to Fridays).

Of course, once a Travel Voucher is automatically included in the price of a match ticket, it will make sense to buy a rail ticket only to Lewes.

It would be nice, though, if the Club could get the Travel Voucher area extended eastwards as far as it currently extends northwards and westwards. It's a bit of an anomoly that folk can travel all the way from Seaford to Falmer (6 stations) with a Travel Voucher, yet you can't travel from Glynde to Falmer (2 stations) without shelling out cash.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A class action lawsuit

Class, not if Beach Hut is involved.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Anyone travelling regularly on a Saturday from east of Lewes to Falmer will be using a Railcard. This means that the comparison that needs to be made is between the Off Peak Railcard Return fares to Falmer and Lewes. Do that comparison and you will see that using a ticket to Lewes plus a Travel Voucher is MORE expensive at the moment than just buying a rail ticket to Falmer.

Of course, once a Travel Voucher is automatically included in the price of a match ticket, it will make sense to buy a rail ticket only to Lewes.

It would be nice, though, if the Club could get the Travel Voucher area extended eastwards as far as it currently extends northwards and westwards. It's a bit of an anomoly that folk can travel all the way from Seaford to Falmer (6 stations) with a Travel Voucher, yet you can't travel from Glynde to Falmer (2 stations) without shelling out cash.

Agreed, or Polegate to Falmer, only 4 stations.
Does seem strange that Worthing to the West, Haywards Heath to the North and Seaford to the South are all included, with only one stop to the East, Lewes

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Agreed, or Polegate to Falmer, only 4 stations.
Does seem strange that Worthing to the West, Haywards Heath to the North and Seaford to the South are all included, with only one stop to the East, Lewes

I guess much of that is a legacy of the original zones being centred on Preston Park/Withdean rather than Falmer.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

£55 a ticket when we get to the prem I reckon

 

[fattyjohn]

Why not give each ST holder the option of purchasing pre paid travel,and then the colour of the ST could reflect payment .Perhaps blue for free travel and white for those not taking it up and having to pay ||

 

[ewe2]

I can see no other scheme that would work,and it seems NSC cant either.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Its this scheme or we have the same problems as this season. No way around it really, people will always be unhappy about it but thats the way things go.

Not as if your shelling out an extra £100 a year.....unless were promoted of course.

 

[Beach Hut]

Why not give each ST holder the option of purchasing pre paid travel,and then the colour of the ST could reflect payment .Perhaps blue for free travel and white for those not taking it up and having to pay ||

Could all very easily be implemented and actually a good idea but a cop out from either the club or SR not bothering to check tickets.

 

[Beach Hut]

Class, not if Beach Hut is involved.

You are such a wit, you really are - in fact first class

 

[Bozza]

Why not give each ST holder the option of purchasing pre paid travel,and then the colour of the ST could reflect payment .Perhaps blue for free travel and white for those not taking it up and having to pay ||

I'm not sure I've seen any wording from the club that suggests that the levy is in fact payment of a fare. More the wording I have seen suggests to me that the levy is very much to allow the club to provide all of the transport related infrastructure and resourcing that is required to fulfil fixtures at the Amex.

A bonus is that there is an element of free travel on offer should a supporter want to take it up for any particular match, but that is almost an aside.

Ticket checking at stations, particularly at Falmer in the couple of hours before a game is just not going to work - the volume when each train comes in is too great given the size of the station to allow any sort of practical validation of tickets.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

You are such a wit, you really are - in fact first class

Chuckle, I can see what you've done there.

PS Shoreham Tory Club is on the High St.