You're welcome to disagree, but your solution rrt is ________ ?
The point is, why put any effort into fare mechanisms,
at all ? Why does a solution
have to involve this?
Dropping the price shoulder peak wont do squat, as we have seen in Melbourne.
Increasing the price just makes people abandon PT for the roads, as we have seen here in Qld, and the extra money generated is insignificant, or does not eventuate anyway (Because less pax paying more ~ = more pax paying less)
My solutions are
-provide more services shoulder peak, and later connecting buses to encourage people not to rush out of work early for fear of long waits (Several people i worked with drove to work in South Brisbane because evening transport was not good enough for them if they had to stay back)
-No 20 min gaps etc in peak or crap like that, as derwan said.
-Accept higher levels of crowding, and order new trains with seating like the Perth A sets.
GC line was mentioned as being unacceptable for standing, but it's not that crowded as its made out to be anyway.