In message , Martin Rich
writes
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:25:49 +0000, Kat
wrote:



BTW, people who are still buying magnetic extension tickets (which of
course don't register on the Oyster) need to take ticket and Oyster to
the ticket window to have it sorted out on the TOM (Ticket Office
Machine)

I advise people to keep some Pre Pay on their period ticket Oysters.
The number of times people have told me that they haven't travelled out
of zone until I read them their travel history is surprising. I don't
believe they're trying to pull a fast one; most genuinely don't realise
it.

That's interesting. At present I go out of zone around once a week:
so far I've just bought paper extension tickets and used them exactly
as I would have done with a magnetic season ticket: I touch the Oyster
at the in-zone station, and put the extension in the gate at the
out-of-zone station.

Have you actually done this yet or was that in the days before Pre Pay
was enabled? It won't work now because an extension ticket cannot open
the gate for you and your Oyster will be recording an unresolved
journey. You should be using Pre Pay now.

I had in mind to use pre-pay for this
eventually, but wasn't planning to change over yet.

When the extension fare is taken from your Pre Pay, it will be at the
2003 price and not the new price, so it's worth doing sooner than later
(apart from the trouble at the gate of having your Oyster read and then
maybe having to queue to get the thing sorted out.)

The really nice thing would be if Oyster could calculate, when the
season expires, whether it would have been cheaper simply to buy an
extra zone for the season, and charge me the cost of that extra
zone...

2 - 6 Annual ticket is £956.00
1 - 6 Annual ticket is £1068.00

The difference would buy you 70x Zone 1 extension tickets. If you are,
for example, going into and out of Zone 1 once a week, that's 35 x 2
uses so it would be sensible to include Zone 1 on your annual card.

If your season ticket has two zones not including Zone 1 and you go to
another zone, NOT Zone 1 then Pre pay would be cheaper.
(She said, hoping she got the arithmetic right)

You need to sit down with a Fares and Tickets booklet and work out
what's best for you...



If I *do* have both a season and pre-pay on my card, will I then need
to touch my Oyster to one of the readers when I go through Finsbury
Park, which *is* covered by my season

No matter what sort of ticket or Pre Pay alone you have on Oyster, it's
essential to use the yellow reader at both the start and finish of your
journey.
--
Kat Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.