On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:09:50AM -0000, Graham Harrison wrote:

What's one of them? (I don't live in London these days).

They're a cunning plan by the TOCs to make PAYG a pain in the arse to
use even when they, strictly speaking, accept PAYG. You will need to
get an OEP every time you use PAYG*, and they will only be available
from shops and TfL stations - they will *not* be available at the very
TOC stations at which people will need them.

* not strictly true, there are lots of rules, none of which normal
people can be expected to remember, so they will either break them and
incur penalty fares, or get an OEP even when they don't need to, thus
making PAYG very annoying for the customers, or they just won't use
PAYG. All three would count as a win for the TOCs.

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