March 3rd 10, 01:43 PM
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Gold card discounts on Oyster PAYG - coming soon.
On 3 Mar, 00:41, Mizter T wrote:
On Mar 2, 11:57*pm, martin wrote:
From last week's Mayor's Question Time:
http://mqt.london.gov.uk/mqt/public/...on.do?id=30225
Question by Caroline Pidgeon
Why is it not possible at present to get Gold Card or Network Railcard
benefits in conjunction with Oyster PAYG? How many people would
benefit from this? Do you have any plans to introduce this?
Answer by Boris Johnson
Railcard schemes are provided by the Train Companies, generally on a
national or regional basis, and TfL does not hold any statistics
regarding holder numbers.
Following discussions with Companies, TfL hopes to introduce PAYG Gold
Card benefits from the end of May. The Train Companies imposed
conditions on their Network Railcard scheme some years ago, which
means that it only provides limited discounts for travel within
London. The Train Companies continue to wish to focus this card on
their regional leisure market, and have indicated that they do not
wish to offer PAYG benefits for travel on their services within
London.
That's good news with regards to the Gold Card discount - the current
situation for annual Travelcard holders where a Gold Card-discounted
paper extension ticket is / might be cheaper than using Oyster PAYG to
automagically pay for the extension is rather absurd.
(I haven't actually done a comparison of the relevant fares, but I
assume the GC-discounted extension is always cheaper, but maybe I'm
wrong for some fares?)
http://bexcentric.wordpress.com/2010...eet-smackdown/
has an analysis
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