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Old July 4th 09, 08:51 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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Default Penalty Fares at mainline stations inside the zones....


On Jul 4, 8:47*am, John B wrote:

On Jul 3, 6:00*pm, "solar penguin"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:


"Oyster is still completely useless on most journeys" - total
balderdash, it's completely useful for an untold number of journeys
around London. However Oyster PAYG might be useless for most of the
journeys that you want to do - but don't use yourself as the basis for
everyone else!


Agreed that it doesn't appear that Mr Petrov has ventured outside
PAYG- land *and also* outside his Travelcard's zones - i.e. to some
of the further reaches of London accessible only by suburban rail
(though they're pretty much all accessible by bus of course). But I
dare say the same applies for a great many number of Londoners.


"The further reaches of London accessible only by suburban rail"? *And
what about the great many number of Londoners who happen to live in
these mysterious, far-off, unexplored no-go areas? *Don't we count?


No. If all the parts of London inaccessible by Oyster PAYG were wiped
off the map tomorrow, it'd be no great loss.

(trying, and struggling, to think of anything in London worth visiting
that isn't PAYG-able. Is Hampton Court technically in London or
Surrey? I suppose Blackheath is quite nice.)


In which case I'd say you're ****ing blinkered, John. Or more to the
point, engaging in some trolling - but that does appear to be the
recurrent theme of this thread.

And no, I'm not going to play this game of listing off places. I'll
let you live on in ignorance.