On 22/08/2011 09:08, peter wrote:
In the mirror image of the OPs question, my London Freedom pass worked
perfectly well on the card readers on Brighton buses last Saturday.
Not sure how all the reconciliation between LAs works. London has a
flat fare scheme, so each journey can be costed, but I doubt if that's
true for Brighton. Tunbridge Wells to Brighton must cost more than,
say, Brighton to Rottingdean.

I wondered about that myself. The standard way of using Oyster on a
London bus is just to touch in, but outside London most bus fares depend
on the distance. At present you have to tell the driver your
destination, and he gives you a ticket for a given fare. If you have a
bus pass, the ticket is priced at zero to you, but the system knows how
much to charge the local Council. But if you just touch in at the
start of the journey, the system has no knowledge of how far you are
going. So how does this work in other places: do you have to touch in
AND touch out?


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