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Just the ticket - but this won’t be easy

Reforms to ticketing will not just need to get past government - but many changes will also have to go through parliament due to them being controlled by primary legislation, former transport minister Norman Baker cautions.

He also says: “You cannot have simplicity as well as optimum pricing for each journey. What perhaps we can have, and don’t always, is a system that automatically offers the passenger the best price, and does so in a way that is easy to understand.”