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Penalty Fares at mainline stations inside the zones....
On 3 July, 17:33, "solar penguin"
wrote: Martin Petrov wrote: On 3 July, 16:40, "solar penguin" wrote: Martin Petrov wrote: This morning I had to travel to Leyton to Ilford and needless to say, given I haven't bought a paper ticket in London for YEARS due to always having a monthly or annual travelcard and auto top up on my Oystercard, it never crossed my mind that I'd have to buy a ticket to cover me for the stretch outside of zone 3 to Ilford. Given that Oyster is still completely useless on most journeys, I'm amazed that you've managed to go "for YEARS" without needing a paper ticket. Were you stuck indoors for most of that time? In London? No, indoors. *Like a room with a padded cell. Drop the sarcasm cos it makes you look a cock. Who the hell are you to question whether or not "I've bought a paper ticket in the last few years". If I tell you I've not, then I've not, ok? Yep, I had a 1-5 for a while while I worked in Bromley Great if you were living in Zone One at the time, maybe. *Not so great if you're living in southeast London and just need a simple point-to-point serason between you'r local station and Bromley South, with no extra travelcard stuff for tubes and buses that you're not going to use at all. "There exists SOME journeys where you can't use an Oystercard". Brilliant. Buy your paper ticket then. and even since I've been working back in the centre, a 1-3 has sufficed for any journey I need to make around the local area. But you need the season travelcard for that to work on the trains. *It's totally useless otherwise. *And Z1-3 is still no good for all your leisure journeys on NR trains, because it forces you in towarsd the centre when you want to be getting heading outwards towards the suburbs and all the open spaces along the London Loop. Many, many, many people buy the season travelcard. They're great. A very large number of people have jobs within the zones and it's scarcely more expensive to buy a monthly to do your daily commute into town, and then everything else is FREE. Millions of people do this, making it VERY VERY USEFUL. But you don't, so it's useless. Obviously. I use London Overground a lot too which has obviously accepted pre-pay for a good few years. Which might be handy one day, but for now Overground is completely useless for most journeys, since there's hardly anything of it south of the river. *So there's still the need for a paper ticket to/from Clapham Junction to connect with it. Overground is completely useless for most journeys? WTF are you talking about? And while I lived in Hackney, largely all my journeys involved buses. The Oystercard is absolutely ace. It is good for buses, I'll grant you that much. *But even so, it's still nothing more than an inconvenient replacement for the old Savers bus tickets. Like I said, Oyster is just a useless white elephant. *I'm glad you've managed to find journeys where it works for you (even if it did mean having to move to Hackney to do it.) *But always remember that Oyster-friendly jouneys are the exception, not the rule. No, if I'd stayed in Finsbury Park where I lived previously, I could have got tubes and overground trains with the Oystercard too. The Oystercard is magnificent north of the river. I appreciate that mainline, south of the river doesn't have the best coverage for Oyster, but it's coming, and before long, all the TOCs in London will move into the 21st century and accept it. You don't like the Oystercard - for whatever reason (probably living south of the river or paranoid fear that MI5 are watching you and recording your movements, whatever) - but don't trot out crap that it's not useful - that is completely and utterly untrue. |
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