London Banter - View Single Post - Do out-of-London bus passes work on London bus touch-pads?

[email protected] · August 22nd 11, 11:27 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Clive Page)
wrote:

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?

It depends on the bus operator. In Cambridge you now mostly touch in and say
where you are going.

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Colin Rosenstiel