Ian Tindale wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:


You need to do a Google search on this newsgroup before ranting - try
Oyster and "Day Travelcard", or better yet, "price capping". Price
capping does exactly what you asked and should be coming online sometime
next month.


I did do a google search. Then I ranted. In that order. I searched for the
quoted title of this post and found nothing (although you'd find this
thread now). Should've broken it down into components I suppose. The term
"price capping" is not something I would've searched for, as it's not a
phrase I would have used in association with this topic - this is the first
time I've heard it used. Sounds hopeful though. Onward March.

My apologies then. I'm surprised searching for Oyster in combination
with travelcards doesn't work well though; there have been an awful lot
of thread on it in the last two months!

I wonder what the rules will say about passing one day travelcards among
people in the same sense that you can pass a pre-pay oyster between people
legitimately now. In other words, if ten of you turn up at the ticket gates
and decide, now, that you'll all use the one pre-pay oyster card in
someones possession, that's perfectly legit, and the gate staff must surely
smile on that.

I don't think you can go through the gate and pass your Oyster back to
other people to use it - the card expects an exit after an entry. You
can't do that with one-day travelcards either - there's some time delay
before being able to pass it through a gate again. However, like a
travelcard, you can give it to someone else *after* your journey has
finished.


If however, the one day travelcard (or hatting, or whatever you called it,
no, it wasn't so posh - capping, yes, that's it) mechanism were in place,
after a few people had entered, you're all now effectively sharing a one
day travelcard for the rest of the day. Or is there some restriction on
multiple entries that might have to swing into place when this bonneting
scheme occurs?

See above. Like I said, there's essentially already a restriction on
multiple entries, and I that remains for Oyster - not specifically, but
just due to the way the system works.