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Dear supporters,

I received the below email earier in the week from GWR. I won't say who exactly sent it for confidentiality reasons, but at this time GWR have taken a firm stance not to continue with easit Network. The email hints that there will be flexible season tickets and Pay-As-You-Go schemes, but will this replace the benefits of easit? It waits to be seen.

"We took the decision not to continue with Easit six months ago having taken account of the introduction of TfL Rail services to Reading and having closely reviewed the success of the scheme in increasing rail use and modal shift.

We appreciate that it will mean an increase in costs for some of our customers. However, we don’t believe that Easit is the best model for increasing a switch to rail. We believe that investment in services and facilities, such as our new trains, our improved timetable and station and car park improvements are better drivers for rail growth. We have therefore taken the firm decision to withdraw from the scheme from the end of March.

Instead, we want to explore new and more flexible ticket options for all our customers spreading our investment across our network and supporting more customers to move to rail. This includes some very specific measures for Oxford around Pay As You Go, as well as Flexible Season Tickets that better reflect new working patterns. This is something we will be pursuing in our new franchise and we are now developing plans with the Department for Transport (DfT).

We will not be introducing the new products during the period of essential and key worker travel, but we will use the time to work on the new ticket options so that we are in a good position to go forward as things normalise.  

Once we have more information on this, there will be an announcement."