On 2 Dec, 17:23, "Paul Scott" wrote:
If your first *touch in takes place before 0930, all your peak and offpeak
daily fares will be added up and capped at the daily Peak value.

If your first touch in takes place after 0930, all your peak and offpeak
daily fares will be added up and capped at the Offpeak value. Effectively,
as long as you don't touch in until after 0930, the afternoon peak fares
simply make you reach the offpeak daily cap quicker.

Er... it has nothing do do with when you first touch. The basic rule
is that each journey you pay for contributes to all of the possible
caps that might apply, and if any of those caps is reached you only
pay the difference (or zero).

Journeys made before 9.30 contribute only to the peak cap, while
journeys made after contribute to both the off-peak and peak caps. So
your sum-total of journeys made all-day will never exceed the peak
cap, while the sum-total of journeys made after 9:30 never exceeds the
off-peak cap.

In practice, the way it works is: If you spend more than the
difference between the two caps before 9:30, you'll end up capped at
the peak cap. If you spend less (or nothing), your journeys after 9:30
are collectively capped at the off-peak cap.

This is all also done separately for each combination of zones (plus
bus/tram-only), with the lowest possible fare applying.

I think we've just learnt why TfL gloss over this detail in their
literature.

U