On 5 July, 15:05, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:31:04 -0700 (PDT), MIG

wrote:
Anyone doing Harrow to Vauxhall via zone 1 with a 2 - 4 travelcard IS
a fare-evader, not just termed. *Complaining that Oyster stops one
evading a fare is a bit silly.

With Oyster PAYG it's not necessarily silly. *With PAYG, it only
matters where you enter and leave the system. *Some journeys are
assumed to go via Zone 1 and some are not, and this has no bearing on
which way you actually go - there are examples where you'd be charged
for a Zone 1 journey even if you didn't as well as the other way
around.

Of course, but the poster was complaining that Oyster was stopping his
preferred practice of evading a fare, for a journey that would be via
zone 1 on Oyster and required travelling through a zone for which is
travelcard was not valid.