http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12710059

OEPs are to be discontinued in May.

London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "For anyone heading to outer London the
extension permits were utterly baffling. I'm delighted they will no
longer be required."
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Paul Terry

"Paul Terry" wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12710059

OEPs are to be discontinued in May.

London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "For anyone heading to outer London the
extension permits were utterly baffling. I'm delighted they will no longer
be required."


That's very good news.

(Of course the supposed OEP requirement applied just as much to those
heading to inner London, but never mind...)

"Paul Terry" wrote in message

OEPs are to be discontinued in May.

London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "For anyone heading to outer London the
extension permits were utterly baffling. I'm delighted they will no longer
be required."

The above quote just shows how baffling - what he should have said was 'For
anyone using a combination of Travelcard and PAYG [OEPs] were utterly
baffling".

For many others they were completely irrelevant - it would be interesting to
know the proportions...

TfL version he

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/19358.aspx

Paul S

Greetings.

In article , Paul Terry wrote:
OEPs are to be discontinued in May.

So what are they going to be replaced with? An honour system?

Regards,
Tristan

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"Tristan Miller" wrote in message
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Greetings.

In article , Paul Terry wrote:
OEPs are to be discontinued in May.

So what are they going to be replaced with? An honour system?

By default, yes. That's how TfL deal with the issue of Oyster travelcard
holders going outside their zones - it's always been assumed they just
accept the risk of underpayment at their relatively small number of ungated
stations.

Paul S

In article ,
Tristan Miller wrote:

In article , Paul Terry wrote:

So what are they going to be replaced with? An honour system?

I wonder if revenue protection staff could do spot checks of people
leaving the station. I guess it may be a bit impractical in most
places. As more NR stations get gated this will presumably be less of
an issue.

-roy

I misread the subject as "OAPs to be abandoned" and assumed this was
going to be a post about some reduction in validity of the Freedom
Pass and/or the national concessionary bus pass.

Then I (thought I) read:

Paul Terry wrote:

OAPs are to be discontinued in May.


....and I was thinking "??!"

:-)

-roy

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Roy Badami wrote:

I misread the subject as "OAPs to be abandoned" and assumed this was
going to be a post about some reduction in validity of the Freedom Pass
and/or the national concessionary bus pass.

Then I (thought I) read:

Paul Terry wrote:

OAPs are to be discontinued in May.


...and I was thinking "??!"

:-)

I have visions of you spending the next couple of months kidnapping senior
citizens to take with you whenever you want to take a trip to the outer
zones.

tom

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Anderson writes

I have visions of you spending the next couple of months kidnapping
senior citizens to take with you whenever you want to take a trip to
the outer zones.

Ah, time for a new escalator sign:

OAPs must be carried.

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Paul Terry

Paul Terry wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12710059

OEPs are to be discontinued in May.

London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "For anyone heading to outer London the
extension permits were utterly baffling. I'm delighted they will no
longer be required."
--
Paul Terry

So, we've got rid of one very minor part of the whole ugly zonal fares/
Oyster mess, but the rest of the nightmare is still there...? Forgive
me for not getting to excited!

I'll save my cheering until NR finally bring back cheap offpeak paper
returns for the London area, so that Londoners - unlike everyone else
in the rest of the country - don't have to pay extra for basic
privacy! Why should only Londoners be disadvantaged that way?