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DLR to Bethnal Green: Priced via Bank or Stratford?
I've got some queries that might take a bit of working out and could
take a bit of time and money to test. The PAYG fare from the southern end of the DLR to Bethnal Green (zone 2) is £1, which presumably means that it is assumed to involve going via Stratford. If one went on PAYG via Bank, touching only at the start and end of the journey, it wouldn't know the difference and would charge £1, and anyone checking on the way would see that you'd touched in and have no complaint. Question 1: If you touched at the mysterious readers at Bank DLR, would it treat it as a continuation of a journey nevertheless always priced at £1, or would it work out that you'd been via zone 1 and charge £1.50/£2? If you had a zone 1 and 2 travelcard loaded on the Oyster, went via Bank and didn't touch beforehand, it would let you through the gates at Bethnal Green and would be valid if it was checked on the DLR on the way to Bank whether you touched in or not. Question 2: If you touched the travelcard on entering the DLR, would it just acknowledge that it was valid, or would it figure that you've used a zone 1 and 2 travelcard on a journey priced as involving zone 3, and deduct the extension fare, in which case would it be one extension or two? (I think probably not, but if so I'd have hit on a way that you would pay extra by touching a travelcard valid for the whole of the DLR journey, nevertheless unfairly.) Question 3: In the unlikely event of the answer to question 2 being that you'd be charged an extension for zone 3, could this be avoided by touching the mysterious readers at Bank? |
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