On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:23:19PM +0000, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , David
Cantrell writes
And in any case, "I've got a travelcard and a big enough PAYG balance,
therefore I've already got a zone extension ticket and it should Just
Work because Oyster is meant to make things simple and convenient".
It doesn't seem to me to be harder than having to remember, at present,
that the PAYG element on an Oyster can only be used on a very limited
number of NR lines.

That's easily remembered as "PAYG only works on TfL services". The
exceptions to that rule are so vanishingly rare that they might as well
not exist for most people. OEPs will introduce complication everywhere.

Or that a Freedom card can only be used after a
certain time on NR

Enforced by ticket barriers on entry at many places, enforced by
ticket inspectors at others.

and only to certain stations...

Enforced by ticket barriers at the other end. The penalty that you get
for fare-dodging will tell you there and then not to do it again.
Having money mysteriously disappear off your Oyster card for no apparent
reason will just make it look like Oyster is unreliable.

or having to remember
any of the other ticketing restrictions encountered in modern life.

The whole point of Oyster is to make ticketing simpler, is it not?

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