"Paul Terry" wrote in message
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In message , Tim Roll-Pickering
writes

Yes but it's the "everyone must always touch in and out" problem. It could
be particularly messy on routes with semi-fast services and stations with
multiple routes to London where you don't know for sure which service
you'll
be getting until it actually gets onto the platform.

I still don't see the problem. You touch in at the start of your journey,
touch out at the end, and Oyster charges you the PAYG fare from your
starting station to the boundary of the outermost zone covered by your
travelcard. Exactly which route you take shouldn't need to come into it.

I think the problem is that the previous poster has introduced a red herring
into the debate. The fact that a paper boundary zone extension to a
destination outside the zones is a day ticket is not new, and neither Oyster
PAYG on NR, or OEPs are irrelevant to that issue.

Nothing has changed in his situation since last year, AFAICT.

Paul S