On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:45:48PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:54:59 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:
Does that figure exclude people with paper season tickets and
outboundary travelcards?
Many of those might well be happy to use Oyster if it were available
to them. Indeed, I can perhaps see a day where Travelcard seasons are
issued in two parts - an Oyster for the 1-6 (or 1-9) bit, and a paper
ticket for the rail bit.

If TfL could get to a point where the magstripe reading parts could be
decommissioned on the barrier lines, they could save a fortune.

Just out of interest, how, then, would one buy a ticket from Brighton to
Edinburgh? You can't expect the ticket offices at Brighton* and
Edinburgh to keep a stock of Oyster cards. Nor could you reasonably
expect everyone travelling across London to find and queue at two ticket
offices one either side of the city, one to pick up a silly little plastic
card and pay for it (having already paid for a through ticket), and the
other to hand it back and get a refund. That would be even crazier than
OEPs!

* or for even more fun and frolics, consider a less well-used station,
such as Bexhill

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