On Nov 13, 1:09*pm, MIG wrote:
On Nov 13, 10:17*am, solar penguin wrote:





MIG wrote:
Yesterday, I set and used an OEP for the first time.

I still feel kind of dirty. No one could have known, but I felt as if
they were all looking at me.

I sympathise. *I feel kind of dirty whenever I've used Oyster or a
Travelcard. *They're both disgusting, evil concepts that should be
abolished and replaced by very cheap, point-to-point paper tickets
instead. *So something like an OEP, which AIUI is some kind of side-
effect of an both Oyster and a Travelcard on it, must feel very, very
disgusting indeed.

And SWT turning traitor and joining the pro-Oyster brigade, means
we'reactually further away from that frabjous day when Oyster and
zonal Travelcards are finally abolished for good. *So we'll just have
to go on feeling filthy and unclean every time we use one, *Depressing
thought isn't it...?

Well, without scooping everything in the same net, there is a
particular silliness to OEPs that even fans of Oyster object to.

That is, season tickets were introduced over a century ago to take
away the need to queue and pay every day for every journey, if one was
making the same journey on a regular basis.

Then season travelcards were introduced to save people who travelled
across a particular range of routes on a regular basis having to queue
and pay every day.

Then Oyster PAYG was introduced, and was meant to avoid the need to
queue and pay for every journey, even when the journey was not regular
or in the same zones*.

Now finally, for people who have chosen to combine ...

season ticket
zonal coverage
PAYG

... NR now requires them to queue up at a machine or counter again for
every f*cking journey. *That's why the OEP concept is such a pile of
pus.

Oh and I forgot to mention NR stations not (at least initially) even
providing the facility to load the OEP that they insist on.