Reply to: Oyster Cards

[Emperor Dalek]

Most unusually, Mailman is correct. Oyster cards cap at the cost of a daily travelcard for the zones you have passed through, as long as you touch in and out again at every destination correctly. However, if you do two consecutive touch ins, the system keeps piling up the charges as it doesn't know where you got off.

[Mailman]

How about this for being royally raped. I need to travel from Leyton (Z3) to Hammersmith (Z2) so I bought a Zone 2-3 Oyster card top up for £14 (on a card that had £2.50 available).

Well it looks like the most you should have paid is £6.90 (cap for zone 1-3 travel).

The info is available on TFL's website but the PDF that explains the charges is here. .

Mailman

[PRC1964]

I have only one thing to say on this matter: EDS

[Mordac]

Arent they bringing in oyster cards on BR soon?

Mailman

Eventually, but why rush it? Think of all those £20 fines they'll miss out on...

[Mailman]

Arent they bringing in oyster cards on BR soon?

Mailman

[meridian]

However, even if you live in a BR only area (as I do) newsagents who sell tickets will only sell you Oyster cards. They catch all the tourists (who don't realise you can't use Oyster on BR) at Vauxhall station. It's a massive scam. And they wonder why the ticket inspectors keep getting abuse...

Absolutely. When I said "they're clear that season tickets are fine", I meant that the inspectors are clear once you're on the train and have no way of getting off. Catches tourists out trying to get to Heathrow all the time.

[Mordac]

No top-up cards can't be used on the BR line, so really the OP should be fined £20 per day of travelling like this, rather than Oyster making the assumption that he is making a legitimate journey.

However, even if you live in a BR only area (as I do) newsagents who sell tickets will only sell you Oyster cards. They catch all the tourists (who don't realise you can't use Oyster on BR) at Vauxhall station. It's a massive scam. And they wonder why the ticket inspectors keep getting abuse...

[IR35 Avoider]

Even if he was presumed to have made the journey by tube, it surely shouldn't have cost more than £8 each way?

[SameOldStory]

Are you allowed to use top-up cards on the BR line?
I travel on the Heathrow Connect every day and they're clear that season tickets are fine, but prepay topups aren't.

No top-up cards can't be used on the BR line, so really the OP should be fined £20 per day of travelling like this, rather than Oyster making the assumption that he is making a legitimate journey.

[Mailman]

In conclusion - how Oyster works:

- Record start point A
- Record end point B
- Work out the MOST PROFITABLE route between point A and B, rather than the most economical.
- Charge accordingly

Another failed application if RFID.

Sorry - rant over. I will be buying good old paper tickets from now on.

Well if they drew a straight line down from liverpool St then when I get off at Tower Hill that would be in Zone 2 instead of Zone 1 (and would save me a massive £40 a month!!). Thought about getting off at Shadwell but the walk is a bit too far (an extra 30 seconds a morning! ).

And anyway, we all know the underground is a rip off...I mean...its not as if its there for your or my benefit is it. Its there for the benefot of the feckers who own the lines!

Mailman

[Dalek Supreme]

I thought the Oyster card capped the day's charge at the cost of a one day travel card?

[threaded]

Hows about having two cards! Touch in/out with one, and in/out with the other, and back to the first, rinse, repeat

It'd have to be code written by someone as devious as me to then match up the journey.

[Churchill]

It's only fair.

[meridian]

Are you allowed to use top-up cards on the BR line?
I travel on the Heathrow Connect every day and they're clear that season tickets are fine, but prepay topups aren't.

[threaded]

So it would therefore appear to be calculating the most expensive journey. Surely something contary to the Sales of Goods Act?