Earl Purple wrote:
Paul Oter wrote:
If you interchange with the DLR at Bank you need to touch your Oyster
card flat on the yellow reader again on the DLR concourse. If you do
not touch in and out at Bank's DLR concourse you may be charged more
than you need. This is not necessary at other interchange stations."
Which suggests that you *do* need to touch out at the DLR concourse,
though it isn't clear whether you still need to do it if you intend to
exit Bank station though the ticket gates immediately afterwards
(obviously you need to do it if you are using the lift to King William
Street).
If the question is really "did the passenger go through zone 1" then
the same could be the case for other journeys where the user may have
gone on Silverlink:
1. Highbury & Islington to Canary Wharf (DLR): Passenger may have
changed at Stratford or may have gone down to Moorgate on
FirstCapitalConnect then Northern Line to bank then DLR (from
experience this is the quicker route).
2. West Brompton to Stratford (not Jubilee). Could go via Silverlink
all the way changing at Willesden Junction or could take District Line
changing at Mile End.
Oyster PAYG is not valid on the Silverlink routes in your examples even
though it is "technically" possible to touch-in/out correctly on the
journeys.
But I have noticed another interesting thing about the via-or-not-via
zone 1 question. If I travel from Tottenham Hale to Canada Water by
tube, it charges zone 3-1. Okay. But if I continue to Canary Wharf I
will pay less because it then charges a zone 3-2 only. Then one wonder
how it would be possible to touch in on the tube network at T. Hale and
out at Canary Wharf without going through zone 1...
Okay, I can (and most times do) take the 'one' to Stratford and then DLR
from there, PAYG is valid on that route too, but in that case I have
found out that I have to validate at Stratford too because otherwise the
DLR validator at CW tell me it is an entry when I exit there so I don't
think that is the possible not-via-zone-1 route they are thinking about
here.
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