In message , at 09:58:50 on Sat, 9 Aug
2014, tim..... remarked:
"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster
card system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a
start!

Thy specifically don't want you to use HS1 for this journey so it
will never happen

Even more so for Ebbsfleet I'd have thought. There's a ten quid
premium on the Anytime fare for using HS1.

I agree that the premium to EF is a bit too high, but it can't be to
price people off the HS service

there is no other alternative way of getting there

At the moment it's just a car park. The same differential applies to
nearby Gravesend (and similar stations into Kent), which do have other
ways of getting there.
--
Roland Perry