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Old April 17th 12, 11:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Capping mishandled

On Apr 17, 12:31*am, "Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
Jack wrote

Re. your refund - this would have been purely goodwill. *Oyster has


never been able to charge in the way that you think it should.

I hope this was made clear to you when the refund was agreed.


"never been able"

Cite please.

Previous explanations of Oyster capping here and elsewhere showed this
working as would be expected, with no cases where using two PAYG Oyster
cards would give a lower cost.

* * "Oyster will work out the cheapest combination of fares for all
your
* * *journeys in one day."

--
Mike D


Clearly TfL have to strike a balance between providing technically
accurate information about how Oyster PAYG actually works and an
easily digestible message for the majority of users. Perhaps the
balance is too far towards simplification at the moment? The Oyster
card charges single fares and caps in real time during entry and exit
transactions.