In message , at
07:36:16 on Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Matthew Dickinson
remarked:
There are calls from the newly set-up Ebbsfleet Urban Development
Corporation to extend Oyster coverage to Ebbsfleet.

In the Standard,

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/m...roperty-a-seco
nd-bite-at-the-cherry-in-this-garden-9653549.html?origin=internalSearch

"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster card
system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a
start!

and provide cheaper fares for the 17-minute ride to St Pancras."

Do they mean "and *thus* provide cheaper fares", or is it a separate
wishlist item? It's a bit hopeful for them to expect the HS1 premium to
disappear quite so soon.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at
07:36:16 on Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Matthew Dickinson
remarked:
There are calls from the newly set-up Ebbsfleet Urban Development
Corporation to extend Oyster coverage to Ebbsfleet.

In the Standard,

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/m...roperty-a-seco
nd-bite-at-the-cherry-in-this-garden-9653549.html?origin=internalSearch

"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster card
system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a start!

Thy specifically don't want you to use HS1 for this journey so it will never
happen

tim

In message , at 16:59:49 on Fri, 8 Aug
2014, tim..... remarked:
"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster
card system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a start!

Thy specifically don't want you to use HS1 for this journey so it will
never happen

Even more so for Ebbsfleet I'd have thought. There's a ten quid premium
on the Anytime fare for using HS1.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 16:59:49 on Fri, 8 Aug
2014, tim..... remarked:
"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster card
system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a
start!

Thy specifically don't want you to use HS1 for this journey so it will
never happen

Even more so for Ebbsfleet I'd have thought. There's a ten quid premium on
the Anytime fare for using HS1.

I agree that the premium to EF is a bit too high, but it can't be to price
people off the HS service

there is no other alternative way of getting there

tim

In message , at 09:58:50 on Sat, 9 Aug
2014, tim..... remarked:
"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster
card system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a
start!

Thy specifically don't want you to use HS1 for this journey so it
will never happen

Even more so for Ebbsfleet I'd have thought. There's a ten quid
premium on the Anytime fare for using HS1.

I agree that the premium to EF is a bit too high, but it can't be to
price people off the HS service

there is no other alternative way of getting there

At the moment it's just a car park. The same differential applies to
nearby Gravesend (and similar stations into Kent), which do have other
ways of getting there.
--
Roland Perry