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for oysters, has the "if you spend more than the price of a
travelcard in prepay singles then youll get charged for a travelcard"
system kicked in yet?

No.
Is it going to kick in?

Yes, sort of... it's known as capping. If you make enough journeys in a
day where it would have been cheaper to buy a Day T/Card then the amount
taken from Pre Pay will be capped at the price of a Day Travelcard. (For
appropriate time and zones used)
BUT, if you know that some of your journeys will be on NR within the
zones then you should buy a paper Day Travelcard because the capping
will not apply to journeys made on NR (with some exceptions)

if not, is it possible to load one day travelcards onto my oyster yet?

No
And is *that* going to kick in, too?

Not exactly AFAIK
But you will be able to buy a paper ticket with your Pre Pay
This shows as an option on the touchscreen machines (Multifare and
Queuebuster) now but there are stickers on those machines advising that
it's not in use yet.

(This is the first I've heard of either of these plans.)

This is my understanding of what's planned but it may be changed.

(BTW, apologies if this is a repeated post; I sent it this morning at
04.00 and as it hasn't shown up I assume the original is lost in
cyberspace)
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Kat Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.