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[email protected] · April 27th 13, 02:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

I did an un-planned set of trips on Wednesday, which quite by chance
emulated the Oyster capping conundrum discussed here recently.

viz: Several trips within Z12, all charged to £2.10 each until I hit
the off-peak cap of £7, and then later in the day a sole Z13 trip.

If I had bought that last trip in isolation it would have cost £3.20
because it was during the evening peak, but because the *cap* doesn't
have an evening peak period I was only charged 70p, via the higher
Z13 cap of £7.70

This lack of triggering a Z123 peak cap, within the journey scenario
above, makes it moot whether the day's travel would be charged at the
Z13 peak cap (£10.60), or the sum of a Z12 offpeak Travelcard (£7.30)
+ a peak Z23 single (£1.60) - which totals £1.70p less.

I hope that's completely put the conundrum to bed!

I don't understand. Did we discuss which of the latter two options would
apply and overlook the actuality you got?

Colin Rosenstiel

Roland Perry · April 27th 13, 07:30 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:04:57
on Sat, 27 Apr 2013, remarked:
I did an un-planned set of trips on Wednesday, which quite by chance
emulated the Oyster capping conundrum discussed here recently.

viz: Several trips within Z12, all charged to £2.10 each until I hit
the off-peak cap of £7, and then later in the day a sole Z13 trip.

If I had bought that last trip in isolation it would have cost £3.20
because it was during the evening peak, but because the *cap* doesn't
have an evening peak period I was only charged 70p, via the higher
Z13 cap of £7.70

This lack of triggering a Z123 peak cap, within the journey scenario
above, makes it moot whether the day's travel would be charged at the
Z13 peak cap (£10.60), or the sum of a Z12 offpeak Travelcard (£7.30)
+ a peak Z23 single (£1.60) - which totals £1.70p less.

I hope that's completely put the conundrum to bed!

I don't understand. Did we discuss which of the latter two options would
apply and overlook the actuality you got?

Yes, that's what happened. The whole discussion would have ended much
sooner had someone remembered the off-peak cap thing.

Which just goes to show how misunderstood the Oyster charging scheme is.
--
Roland Perry

[email protected] · April 27th 13, 09:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
09:04:57 on Sat, 27 Apr 2013, remarked:
I did an un-planned set of trips on Wednesday, which quite by chance
emulated the Oyster capping conundrum discussed here recently.

viz: Several trips within Z12, all charged to £2.10 each until I hit
the off-peak cap of £7, and then later in the day a sole Z13 trip.

If I had bought that last trip in isolation it would have cost £3.20
because it was during the evening peak, but because the *cap* doesn't
have an evening peak period I was only charged 70p, via the higher
Z13 cap of £7.70

This lack of triggering a Z123 peak cap, within the journey scenario
above, makes it moot whether the day's travel would be charged at the
Z13 peak cap (£10.60), or the sum of a Z12 offpeak Travelcard (£7.30)
+ a peak Z23 single (£1.60) - which totals £1.70p less.

I hope that's completely put the conundrum to bed!

I don't understand. Did we discuss which of the latter two options would
apply and overlook the actuality you got?

Yes, that's what happened. The whole discussion would have ended much
sooner had someone remembered the off-peak cap thing.

Which just goes to show how misunderstood the Oyster charging scheme
is.

If you remember I also reported that the 4 pm Peak start time isn't rigidly
enforced either. No cap involved.

Colin Rosenstiel

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