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   From: G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <4f26d834.3680515@news.eternal-september.org>, Don Pearce   
    writes:   
   []   
   >Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.   
   >   
   >d   
      
   (And Dave Plowman.)   
      
   I had occasion to use buses several times in Newcastle (upon Tyne, north   
   England), earlier this month; I would say that the majority of   
   passengers were paying cash, or using free (disabled, age, or   
   schoolchildren) passes. I don't think they even _had_ any form of swipe   
   reader or similar. I would venture that the same applies in a lot of   
   England, probably Britain.   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of   
   Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in   
   Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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