Quite. It seems to me that the number of stations one can go to on an
Oyster single is one. You have a choice of which one but it is still
one.
I am sure some other systems will have tickets that are valid for a
fixed
period of time, e.g. an hour, and so can be used for multiple journeys.

As, of course, does LUL - the ODTC or Oyster cap. Just not a "short"
one.

Yes of course, my point being that they could have been comparing a ticket
that could get you to just one of 275 stations with one that would only get
to one of say 100 but might still be valid to go to another one or more if
time permitted.

Just to add to the nonsense of the sums, for any starting station you chose,
most of the 275 stations would not cost £3.50 to get to in the first place.

The latter is, of course, a London "quirk" - while, say, Singapore's
EZLink Oyster-a-like system is vastly cheaper in terms of single fares,
there's no cap (nor any other kind of period ticketing below a week),
so in a day of riding around that system to see as many places as
possible I spent a heck of a lot more than gbp6.50.

There is a lot to be said for paying in proportion to the amount you use the
system :-)

I'm wondering if we'll see the demise of the seven day travelcard once the
National Rail stations come on board. Oyster Pay As You Go does look like
it is already pretty competitive.

It does have discounted bus/train to bus/train transfers, however,
which would be nice to see on Oyster, and would avoid the silly
situation where one is penalised for the situation where there isn't a
direct bus. It would be good to see gbp1.50 being for *any* bus single
journey so long as you transferred within 30 minutes (say), or so long
as the second ride wasn't on the same route as the first, and a similar
situation (based more on Tube fares) for bus and Tube combined.

A time validity on bus fares would also help with the problem you get with
buses failing or turning short of their destination. No need to mess around
with transfer tickets, just touch in again and don't get charged. Let's
make it a nice generous figure like 90 minutes though and if people can make
return trips in that time and only get charged once then good luck to them.