Anger at Oyster cards 'rip-off' as millions hit for not 'touching out'
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13:05:45 on Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Owain
remarked:
Tolls are rarely charged on routes you *have* to use, there's normally a
"long way round". Which doesn't exist for the US Embassy, being inside
the zone. So it's a lot more like car tax, than say the Dartford Toll.
Wouldn't they get a 90% residents' discount anyway?
Not if they're resident in the Embassy - it's on US territory.
Does that matter in this case? They are resident in London, even if that
bit of London isn't (for some purposes) GB.
Or is the resident's discount a misnomer, and really something like a
"Council tax payer's discount"?
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Roland Perry
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