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Old October 29th 05, 08:12 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default New fares from 2 January 2006 - pdf
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(TKD) wrote:

The £3 deposit can be recouped from two journeys from next year so
its hardly a moot point.

Cash - 2 x Zone 2 (£3) singles = £6

Oyster - 2 x Zone 2 (£1) prepay = £2 (+ £3 deposit) = £5

Not only recouped but a pound saved.

A very basic fact the anti-Oyster brigade seem incapable of
understanding!

The *minimum* cash fare of £3 will get the message home.
I don't think people quite understand the implication of it just yet.

From January just going one stop, even in zone 6, and paying cash
is going to cost £3 (instead of £1 on Oyster). This is a mark-up of
200%. If this is prominently advertised at the ticket machines and
explained properly by staff surely only the insane would resist
migration to Oyster?

it's called ripping off outsiders.

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Colin Rosenstiel
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