With many Londoners of all ages working at least some days at home, home-worker and mother-of-two Kay Carter calls for more flexible ticketing on London Transport. Many Highgate residents are now working from home for at least part of the week. These local residents - and those who work part-time or who are, like Kay, working from home and trying to juggle their 'work:life balance' - find that standard weekly or monthly Oyster Cards look like increasingly poor value. That's why Conservatives on the Greater London Assembly are now working with Transport for London to offer better value to these customers. Home-workers are caught in a cleft stick -- either buy expensive tickets daily or buy a weekly ticket which they only part use. Conservatives are lobbying for more flexibility on ticketing so that Londoners have the option of, for example, buying a three-day per week TravelCard. This would make part-time working more affordable for commuters and should encourage those who are able to work from home to do so more often.
Even with Tube upgrades, the building of CrossRail and introducing more carriages on many mainline trains, the rise in London's population is leading to ever more overcrowding on public transport. Encouraging home working, where possible, is a great way to alleviate overcrowding - and offering ticket incentives is a simple way to facilitate this.