Richard J. wrote:
sweek wrote:
Last weekend I had to bring some of my friends to the Stansted
Express. I didn't want to pay for two single trips, the normal way
of doing this is going Manor House to Liverpool Street (Victoria
Line partly closed and the trains not stopping at Tottenham Hale,
grr) and Liverpool Street back to Manor house. Instead, I touched
in at Manor House, did not go through the gate at Liverpool Street,
and touched out at Finsbury Park, which is close enough to where I
had to be.
So the only thing registered here is a zone 2 to zone 2 trip for a
pound. I don't really feel like this is fare-dodging,

Of course it is! You deliberately travelled through Zone 1.

So? He was using Oyster. We decided in an earlier thread that some
trips are defined as being not-via-Z1, but that if you use your Oyster
to make those trips via Z1, you haven't broken any rules, even though
the system will only charge you the not-via-Z1 price.

Now, certainly, this isn't quite the same, since Liverpool Street is not
on the way from Manor House to Finsbury Park by any stretch of the
imagination. But it's not entirely obvious to me that this is any more
fraudulent than deliberately traveling from Tottenham Hale to Canary
Wharf via Z1 even though you know that you're not going to be charged
the via-Z1 price.

In New York, which has a flat per-trip price, is it fraudulent to ride
around the system all day on a single fare, without exiting until the
end of the day?
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA