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North London Line Revisited
On Mar 27, 1:33 am, "Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
MIG wrote. On Mar 26, 9:09 pm, Olof Lagerkvist wrote I think you are missing the situation where paper travelcards are combined with Oyster PAYG. Say for example that you have a National Rail season ticket from a station outside the zones that includes a Z2-6 travelcard. If you one day want to travel into zone 1 using LU services it is not practically possible to combine it with Oyster PAYG. If the season is on Oyster AND the out of zone travel on NR is on one of the few 'valid for Oyster PAYG' routes this surely works now ? Otherwise you have to buy a paper ticket to cover the out of zone travel on NR or get off in Z2 and transfer to LU which is precisely "travel into zone 1 using LU". Thank you, that is exactly the kind of situation I find myself in repeatedly, living near an NR station, in the opposite direction from an Oyster stop, with a paper zone 1 and 2 travelcard, and occasionally having to go to Canning Town, which requires getting off at North Greenwich, going up the escalator, touching in and waiting for a later train (or else paying £4 for a paper extension). Getting the travelcard (if it's a weekly or longer season) on Oyster fixes this, leaving only buying a ODTC and getting an unexpected call to go to Canning Town during the day. But that still leaves either having to leave home in the wrong direction, go to the Oyster stop and then go back past home to the station (not likely on a work day) or getting back before the shop closes the evening before, going past home to the shop and going back again etc etc. Whatever happens, I am significantly inconvenienced or overcharged for reasons beyond my control. Pads in trains would fix this, but there would be a cost. The sale of reasonably-priced extension tickets to holders of paper travelcards would be a good compromise that wouldn't involve installing anything. |
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