London Banter - View Single Post - Oyster charging for journeys that don't happen

Roland Perry · February 13th 15, 10:40 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 05:16:19
on Fri, 13 Feb 2015, remarked:
Can anyone spot the teeny problem there? No?

Touch in, go through gate, touch out on exit gate to get refund but don't
go through it and happily travel for free - assuming you don't get caught
by a revenue patrol and can get out the other end of course.

In that case they need to cancel the original touch in/out if you
touch in again within say half an hour. If the disruption is so bad
you decide to change stations, they should allow you to do a pseudo
touch-in on any of the ticket machines.

Which, according to oyster-rail.org.uk (but not TfL's own web site) is
something like what happens.

It would be nice if there was an official way of confirming what should
happen.

Lack of transparency is a long term complaint that I (and others) have
with TfL's fares policy. Of course, this would never have happened if
they'd been re-nationalised. (Oh.. wait...)
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Roland Perry