On 14 Feb, 10:10, "Bob Wood" wrote:
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MIG typed:





On Feb 12, 10:59 pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:54:03 -0000, "tim....."

wrote:

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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This is really quite difficult in that you really made two separate
trips on your outward journey; Hillingdon - Bow and then Bow -
Clapham Common. However the fact you went through two OSIs in
short succession made it impossible for the system to determine
that. I could foresee "officialdom" arguing that you were
attempting to use PAYG as some form of rover ticket.

What is daily capping meant to be if it isn't "some sort of rover
ticket"?

Which is exactly what I went on to say!

sigh
If the systems knows exactly where you've been during the more than
two hours, what is the justification for the penalty if you take more
than two hours? Why not at least just charge for a double journey?

Is it because people are suspected of train-spotting, for which they
have to be penalised?

Another question, if you take more than two hours for a journey after
capping has applied, are you still charged £4?

Yes. Such journeys which are penalised with the maximum fare are not
eligible for capping.

--
Bob-



I can slightly understand that in a case where someone simply stayed
in the system for longer than the journey should have taken and could
be assumed to have gone beyond the capping zones, had lunch in a place
with an ungated station, then gone back into the capping zones again
(although it's a bit much to be trapped in some kind of delay and then
get fined for it as well).

But in the case described in this thread, the card had been touched at
a number of places within time limits that would have made such a
suspicion impossible. So, as long as someone doesn't disappear
mysteriously, but continues touching in and out within their capping
zones (at "continuation" places like Bow and Canary Wharf etc), what
is the justification for assuming that they could have gone outside of
the zones and punishing them accordingly?

It's not even as if you couldn't do that within a two-hour period
anyway.