Paul Terry wrote:
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I'm going to be in UK for 1 day plan to use a 3.50 1 day bus and a
1.50 1 way bus fare., do I have to pay 5 pounds or 8 pounds?

A 3.50 bus pass covers all buses in all zones throughout the day (and on
until 4.30 the next morning), so it is unlikely you would also need a
single (1.50 cash) ticket.

Unless you plan to return to London in the near future, it is not really
worth putting the bus pass on Oyster - just get a paper ticket
(available from the same places that you buy Oyster).

If you are planning to visit London again and therefore prefer the
Oyster option, the total would be 6.50 including the 3.00 deposit (which
is refundable).
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Paul Terry


While the point of the deposit is to stop people casually losing the
cards and getting new ones, which are costly to produce, presumably
those that are returned and the deposit refunded are thrown away?

I mean, they wouldn't reissue a sticky, scratched one to a new
customer. There's something in the logic of this I can't quite get my
head round.

If someone is clearly only on London for one brief holiday, nothing is
actually gained, and much is lost, through the deposit. There won't be
much time to lose it, and it won't be reused when returned. (And it's
a big discouragement to use a system which TfL wants to make universal,
unless they want to retain an effective foreigner travel surcharge.)

Regular commuters who are serial losers of cards pay a zero deposit if
they start with a period travelcard, and yet these are presumably the
people who need to be discouraged from needing new cards.