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TfL's strike contingency plans...
On Jun 8, 11:45*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" T.C.Roll- wrote: Paul Corfield wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote: * Most strikingly Oyster PAYG "will be accepted on all National Rail journeys within Greater London on Wednesday and Thursday, just show your Oyster card at station gate lines". In practice I'm pretty sure this means that anyone who can flash an Oyster card can travel on NR services in London. I'm sure people will simply be waved through. What about journeys where one has to go through a set of PAYG readers at one end but not at the other - e.g. Forest Gate (where readers have been installed but don't appear to be operational) to Liverpool Street (where the readers are configured for PAYG for Stratford to Liverpool Street), for travellers substituting Upton Park to central London? This was *exactly* the issue I was trying to get at earlier with my Bowes Park to King's Cross example - except, as Paul C's questioning showed, it was a bit of a rubbish example. Will these be automatically reversed or will the PAYG user have to chase it up - especially as they can't easily do so at Forest Gate. Paul C suggests in his reply that there might be "a mass reversal of maximum fares implemented after the strike to remove any such charges" - i.e. an automatic reversals after the event, with money being credited back to people's cards. If you read my reply, you'll see that I wouldn't consider this ideal - far from it in fact. My thought was that the very system that results in these £4 charges, the 'entry charge' system (whereby £4 is debited on entry and the correct fare is calculated and appropriate sum is refunded on exit) is disabled for the strike days. Instead the system could go back to how things were in the early days of PAYG - the system would charge the minimum fare on touching-in, and then on touching-out any difference was calculated and the remaining fare deducted. In this system, not touching in or out would not result in a £4 charge, instead one would simply be charged the minimum fare from that station. As I said, that's how I'd do it! But I'm not doing it, so we'll see how it works out on the day. [...] (Or could they nip down to Wanstead Park and touch out on the readers there?) They could - but it's not really something you could ask people to do! The easier alternative would be to simply avoid touching in/out at Liverpool Street, if at all possible - i.e. go through the side gate if it's open, brandishing Oyster in hand. Depends how they're doing things on the day there. Afraid I have my doubts that the gateline staff will completely comprehend the whole picture (not least because they likely get free travel on the mainline hence don't have to confront this personally). |
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