On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:41:40 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

Why didn't someone make it a condition of national rails TOCs operating
within the Oyster area that they accept Oyster single tickets?
After all, they accept Oyster Travelcards, so what's the fundamental
difference?

Travelcards are already valid on NR services (paper or otherwise).
LUL singles (generally) aren't, because the fares structures are not
harmonised, nor is revenue shared.

I agree it's daft, though. I also think it's daft that there isn't an
interavailable single in the TfL area anyway - i.e. one single ticket
for a journey which could involve bus, train, LUL and tram (perhaps
with an additional bus-only single if for political reasons we want to
keep bus fares down). Most Verbundtarif systems in Germany work like
this.

Neil

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