On Jan 4, 4:45*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 4 Jan, 16:23, Paul Terry wrote:

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Chris writes

Why can't they charge off-peak cap on travel prior to 0630, if no
further travel is done until after 0930 (and before or after the pm
peak)?

They do. See:http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oysteronline/9261.aspx

"If the total cost of your journeys is less than the peak cap, you will
be charged separately for any journeys taken during peak hours, plus the
off-peak cap."

You've missed the OP's point - he is asking why Tube journeys between
0430 and 0630, which are charged at the Off-Peak Oyster single fare,
don't contribute to the Off-Peak cap as opposed to the Peak cap as
they are currently configured to do.

An example of the scenario Chris has in mind is someone who makes a
Tube journey between half-five and six in the morning, then doesn't
make any journeys in the 0630 to 0930 window, then makes further
journeys after that - he is asking why the pre-0630 journey couldn't
simply contribute to the Off-Peak cap.

It must be difficult to start enough journeys during the peak window
to ever hit the relevant peak cap in any case. The difference between
the peak and off-peak cap seems to be the price of one LU/DLR/train
journey in the relevant zones, which is pretty much all one is likely
to do in the time available, unless one gets a bus as well, in which
case there's the bus cap ...