A foreign exchange broker has launched a petition campaigning for discount season tickets during the two-month termination of all weekend services on the London Liverpool Street to Norwich train line.
Tristan Barrett, a 33-year-old from Rainsford Road in Chelmsford, asked Abellio Greater Anglia if they'd offer discounts during the period.
Buses will replace all trains between Colchester and Shenfield on the line between Saturday, January 31, and Sunday, March 22 – doubling journey times in the process.
Unperturbed however, the West Ham season ticket holder wrote to HM Government e-petitions who published his request.
Mr Barrett's petition, which asks Greater Anglia to discount weekly and monthly season tickets for those travelling on the line by 29 per cent, has 38 signatures so far.
Mr Barrett said: "I commute as a season ticket holder to watch West Ham FC at Upton Park and I attend music events to DJ in London which means coming back on Sunday so my travel will be disrupted every weekend.
"It just seems a great liberty to be paying the same price for a weekly or monthly season ticket and not getting a full week of undisrupted travel."
Commuters can sign the petition here.
