I believe the shuttle bus frequency will be improved - plus there are options for a 30 min frequency all night train service for a 3 year trial period.
I hope it is going be 7 days a week also. At the moment there's a 24 hour a day service except on the day that you (well, I) most need it!!
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FCC started off well enough, especially when Elaine Holt got heavily involved at the outset and brought in other directors and managers to reply direct,
And then they 1) introduced a ban on the use of off peak tickets during the evening rush hour - 2 hours 44 minutes and at least in the first half hour trains were leaving half empty. And, on the Thameslink route, they picked on people travelling to destinations beyond St Albans, the restrictions didn't apply anywhere else. An hour and a half or even 2 hours I can understand, but 2.75 hours is an inordinately long time to have to wait if you get helfd up and don't make it to the 4.18 from St Pancras.
2) Putting a note in the timetable saying that you could not join a northbound Thameslink Route train in Central London during these times - It was not until about 2 years later that I found out (from reading about ticket validity codes on this site) that I could in fact do so when travelling from places outside London (Esher and Reading for example).
3) Forcing me (at least for the first few months) to buy a peak travelcard if I wanted to come home in the evening peak - which meant that I had to pay for the morning peak element which I was not using, and also meaning that the Network Card that I had bought a few months earlier could not be used, making a whopping difference to the fare (it was a 170% increase)
That was the main gripe - others included a fiasco with car parking and getting charges at bank holidays, finding that TVMs (I think at St Albans but could have been elsewhere too) were overcharging)....there was a string of things, I can't recall exactly what else now, it was too long ago.
And then reading in an article somewhere concerning an interview with Elaine Holt was laughing about the evening evening peak restrictions.
And then, just to rub it in, putting up posters proclaiming "Your Journey, Your Choice, Your Railway" or suchlike.
As for the forums, I raised this but got nowhere. In particular I commented that I found it incongruous that I could travel home from Sussex during the evening peak (as I would jon the FCC train before East Croydon) but not Reading (as I would be joining it at St Pancras) but this was simply ignored - nobody bothered to point out to me that the validity coad from Reading would allow me to travel before 7.
I've spent most of my 60+ years trying to encourage people to travel by train - but not between 2006 and around 2009/2010. In fact, I ended taking the car or using Hemel Hempstead for a trains for a year or more.
But it did start to get a bit better after Elaine Holt left - or maybe I just started to mellow.
Welcome back GoVia/Thameslink!!