On May 4, 2:47*pm, MIG wrote:
On May 4, 2:00*pm, asdf wrote:

On Sun, 03 May 2009 18:45:20 -0500,
wrote:

- Travellers from Heathrow to Wimbledon Park will have to touch at
Earls Court to avoid overrunning the Z23456 limit.

Where would one touch then? I don't recall seeing any validators on the
District platforms.

I'm assuming some validators will be put in. If it doesn't happen then
my speculation is incorrect (perhaps fortunately - it'd be a pain to
have to remember to touch on the platform).

As Mizter T pointed out, the limits are generous enough that people
aren't likely to be "against the clock" (and my other question about
whether shorter time limits will be applied wasn't meant to imply
that),

(If people really had to leap out of trains to touch validators at
places like Earls Court it would hardly be healthy or safe. *Would
they leave their luggage on the train? *It would be too bonkers even
for TfL under the rules of Oyster.)

And in any case, surely that journey would be priced assuming zone 1,
and therefore also timed assuming zone 1? *It would be bizarre if
different assumptions about "zones passed through" was applied to
setting fares from setting timeouts.

Sorry, it never occurred to me that Earls Court was boundary zone 2,
but it seems that it is.


But there's no point getting worked up about speculation. *It's more
worth getting worked up about the fact that a major change seems to be
taking place, but no meaningful information is available about what it
is.