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I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

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"barry.irwin1" typed


I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010


Lucky thing! I'm still awaiting mine but I can use mine before 9am...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

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barry.irwin1 wrote:
I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

www.freedompass.org says they are valid for two years until March 2008,
or perhaps that's just the renewed ones. Is this your first one or have
you just renewed the old one?

Anyway thanks for the reminder. I see I should have renewed mine last
week!
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

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Barry Salter wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:22:51 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

barry.irwin1 wrote:
I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

www.freedompass.org says they are valid for two years until March
2008, or perhaps that's just the renewed ones. Is this your first
one or have you just renewed the old one?

Whilst the validity on the pass itself says 2006 or 2008, I think I'm
right in saying that the actual *card* has the expiry date encoded as
31st March 2010. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure, but there you
go...

That would mean that if you forgot or were not able to renew it, it
would still work for a time, which is friendly. Presumably they could
centrally block all cards that hadn't been renewed after, say, a month.
If you travel on an electronically valid card that says 31 Mar 2006, can
you get penalty-fared?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 Barry Salter wrote:

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:22:51 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

barry.irwin1 wrote:
I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

www.freedompass.org says they are valid for two years until March 2008,
or perhaps that's just the renewed ones. Is this your first one or have
you just renewed the old one?

Whilst the validity on the pass itself says 2006 or 2008, I think I'm
right in saying that the actual *card* has the expiry date encoded as
31st March 2010. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure, but there you go...

The advert about renewal that I've seen shows the original card with
just a label stuck on giving the expiry date as 2008. So it may well be
that the card does not expire until 2010.

Has anybody checked what shows on the screen when the card is used on a
bus?
--
Thoss

[To reply, replace * with . in Reply-To address]

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I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

www.freedompass.org says they are valid for two years until March 2008,
or perhaps that's just the renewed ones. Is this your first one or have
you just renewed the old one?

Whilst the validity on the pass itself says 2006 or 2008, I think I'm
right in saying that the actual *card* has the expiry date encoded as
31st March 2010. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure, but there you go...

The advert about renewal that I've seen shows the original card with
just a label stuck on giving the expiry date as 2008. So it may well be
that the card does not expire until 2010.

Has anybody checked what shows on the screen when the card is used on a
bus?

If you add a Freedom Pass to an Oyster online account the expiry shows
as 2010.

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thoss typed


On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 Barry Salter wrote:

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:22:51 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

barry.irwin1 wrote:
I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

www.freedompass.org says they are valid for two years until March 2008,
or perhaps that's just the renewed ones. Is this your first one or have
you just renewed the old one?

Whilst the validity on the pass itself says 2006 or 2008, I think I'm
right in saying that the actual *card* has the expiry date encoded as
31st March 2010. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure, but there you go...

The advert about renewal that I've seen shows the original card with
just a label stuck on giving the expiry date as 2008. So it may well be
that the card does not expire until 2010.

Has anybody checked what shows on the screen when the card is used on a
bus?

Zone 1-6 Travelcard, IIRC.
Can't remember any dates.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

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I GOT MY NEW FREEDOM PASS,,, VALID UNTIL MARCH 2010

www.freedompass.org says they are valid for two years until March 2008,
or perhaps that's just the renewed ones. Is this your first one or have
you just renewed the old one?

Whilst the validity on the pass itself says 2006 or 2008, I think I'm
right in saying that the actual *card* has the expiry date encoded as
31st March 2010. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure, but there you go...

The advert about renewal that I've seen shows the original card with
just a label stuck on giving the expiry date as 2008. So it may well be
that the card does not expire until 2010.

Has anybody checked what shows on the screen when the card is used on a
bus?

Zone 1-6 Travelcard, IIRC.
Can't remember any dates.

Shoud be 1-D

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"TKD" wrote in message
...
If you add a Freedom Pass to an Oyster online account the expiry shows
as 2010.

I don't suppose you can add pre-pay to them now can you? (for those who want
to travel before 9am)

Regards
Sunil

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:15:36 -0000, "Sunil Sood"
wrote:


"TKD" wrote in message
...
If you add a Freedom Pass to an Oyster online account the expiry shows
as 2010.

I don't suppose you can add pre-pay to them now can you? (for those who want
to travel before 9am)

No this is not possible. There is nothing to stop a person holding a
normal pre-pay Oyster card in addition though so they can travel at a
discount if they wish to travel before their Freedom Pass comes into
operation.

It is commonplace for people in HK to have more than one Octopus card -
I don't claim to understand why they do but they do.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

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If you add a Freedom Pass to an Oyster online account the expiry shows
as 2010.

I don't suppose you can add pre-pay to them now can you? (for those who want to travel before 9am)

When you present a Freedom Pass at a touchscreen ticket machine the balance is
given as £0.00 but the option to add prepay is not there. However, if you add
the Freedom Pass to an online Oyster account the balance is given as well as the
option to add prepay and auto top-up. Don't know what would happen if you try
it out.

I've emailed ALG (who run Freedom Pass) on behalf of one of my parents who
gets confused holding two cards. They emailed back and said they plan to add
prepay soon-ish but there are some obstacles:

1. Some early freedom passes cannot handle prepay.
2. There needs to be some admin set up as there will effectively be two suppliers
for each Freedom Pass. ALG for the "travelcard" element and TfL for the prepay.
3. Travel on a Freedom Pass is an entitlement so the normal practice of blocking
travelcard use with a negative prepay balance will have to stopped.
4. This slightly complicated arrangement needs to be effictively communicated.