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[email protected] · August 25th 10, 10:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article 2Ygdo.18922$S_1.9205@hurricane, (Roy
Badami) wrote:

On 25/08/10 23:18, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
18:05:16
on Wed, 25 Aug 2010, remarked:
I have searched tfl's website to no avail, or at least I haven't
stumbled across the answer I seek so I now turn to the people who can
provide the real answers. Can an Oyster card be used to pay more than
one person's fare per ride? Example, here in Chicago, the Chicago
Card Plus can be swiped up to six times in a row to admit up to six
folks at a time.

Not for simultaneous rides (because of the daily capping if nothing
else). But they can legitimately be used for consecutive rides by
different people, iirc.

Roland is right; you can't do that. Apart from the fact that the
gates won't let you, each passenger must hold either a ticket for
their journey or a validated Oyster card. Failure to do that would
leave you open to prosecution

You can indeed share Oyster cards provided they only have Pay As
You Go on them. (You can't share Oyster cards which have period
Travelcards or other such products loaded onto them, though.) But
multiple simultaneous passengers requires multiple Oyster cards (or
paper tickets).

Presumably you also have to actually hold the railcard registered to an
Oyster card as well?

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Colin Rosenstiel