"Roy Badami" wrote in message
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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).
-roy
Much appreciated. Thank you. I was/am trying to come up with an answer
that won't leave me with 4 Oyster cards with a balance on them. Two I don't
mind as wife & I frequent London 2 or 3 times a year. For this particular
trip, I would normally have bought four 3-Day travelcards good for zones 1-6
(all 6 zones out of necessity).