On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:24:25 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:52:17 -0500, Recliner
wrote:

I notice that the Picc has been much disrupted today and it's announced
that tickets are valid on local buses and FCC. But what does this mean to
Oyster card users? Do they have to pay on the day and then claim Oyster
refunds from The Oyster helpline? At best, that's tedious, and I wonder
now many people will bother.

If you are booted out of the tube and ticket acceptance on buses has
been introduced then Centrecomm will radio bus drivers and provide a
code which is entered into the bus ticket machine. This will allow
what I think is called auto completion of the journey where you do not
get charged the bus fare.

Do you have to tell the driver and possibly have a discussion while
boarding, with a queue of other people behind you? What happens if the
bus you take is not from just outside the problem station?

For example, my most recent example was when I worked out that I could
take a different Tube route on other lines to get within one bus ride
of home on a route I know (instead of navigating two or more
unfamiliar bus routes). I boarded the bus several miles from where the
problem was announced, outside a station on a different line. I didn't
bother mentioning this to the driver, who probably would know nothing
of the Tube problem.