OK, in typing that, I realised that I think I can figure it out - the trains are subsidised (so we should stop calling them 'privatised'). That not only explains fare dodgers costing the tax payer, but I bet they are subsidised on the number of individual journeys they sell. So if they sell a return ticket, even if only half is used, that's two journies they've recorded rather than one. So they make returns slightly cheaper to make us buy them even if we don't need them.

I have no idea if that's true, but it makes sense, I think.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:40, 1 reply)

You filthy communist.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:44, closed)

It's not my fault. It's this sharing the bath water, unless I get there fast it does nothing to clean me. Nothing I tell you.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:49, closed)

Quiet, or it's the gulag, for you,
comrade.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:55, closed)

Not the gulag! Art Galleries are soooooooooo dull.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:57, closed)