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Old March 7th 10, 02:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Paul Terry wrote:

In message p.homeip.net,
Paul Cummins writes

In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

If you go back and read the original post, you might now realise
that your reply at that point was completely useless, because they
were extending a travelcard beyond its validity...


Which also gos to show that the system is wrong, because it can't easily be
understood by the reasonable man.


It's not really that difficult. People have managed for years to understand
that an extension ticket is needed to go beyond their travelcard zones.


But whenever that has been true, it has also been true that you needed a
ticket for the whole trip if you didn't have a travelcard at all. That's
where the OEP situation is completely novel - you need a whole new ticket
*only* if you're doing part of the trip by travelcard, *in addition* to
the PAYG credit to actually pay for it!

tom

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