On 15 Dec, 11:59, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:58:25PM +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:27:25 +0000, David Cantrell
wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:13:23AM +0000, asdf wrote:
What about all the tourists? It's hard for many of them to understand
Oyster.
OEPs won't exactly help here.
Let's be honest though - how many tourists are going to hold a period
travelcard and then wish to travel beyond its zonal availability?

Uh, any of them who are visiting for a week, spend most of the time
doing the usual tourist things in zone 1, but on a couple of days go a
bit further out to visit, eg, Kew Gardens or Hampton Court.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *If
there are more than 100 in a year I would be surprised. *Some tourists
just won't bother to use public transport, some will buy day tickets and
some will be brave and use PAYG. * It's been a heck of a long time since
we've had a query on here from an aspiring visitor who might find a
weekly travelcard best value.

For a tiresome and complicated penny-pinching transport-geek version of
value, perhaps. *When people ask *me* what ticket they should get, I
recommend a travelcard, because it's simple and it Just Works. *If it
happens to cost a coupla quid more than the more complicated but cheaper
combination of tickets which qould require an in-depth knowledge of the
minutiae of fares, then I very much doubt that any of the people who've
asked me would care.

Also, the weekly travelcard is less than five times the off-peak cap
for equivalent zones, and allows travel during the peak and for seven
days.

But the advantage of avoiding the £3 deposit is no longer true.