On 27 Nov, 11:44, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message

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Neil Williams wrote:

Or just enforce that touching in and out
is mandatory regardless of what's on your card.

Then explain how you'd handle the following situations:

1). I sometimes visit my parents in Epsom, for which I get an extension to
my existing season ticket. I will not be able to touch out at Epsom so how
do I touch out. (And even if I can get special dispensation to enter
through the barriers without touching in, I may well not be on an Epsom
train for all of the journey, but instead changing at Sutton.)

Bad example Epsom is irrelevant to the 'OEP discussion' because it is
outside the zones. You'll have to do exactly what you do already - ie buy a
ticket?

Paul S

This was following on from a suggestion for doing away with the OEP by
making touching compulsory for any Oyster use.

However, I've suggested that could only be enforced by eg PFing a
travelcard holder for not touching, despite having a valid ticket.
Tim has pointed out that it's not always physically possible to touch
anyway.

His example is the same as any situation where you currently have to
get off and wait for the next train (an hour later maybe) to be able
to extend after using PAYG, but at least you don't have to do that as
an additional validation for travelcards (yet).