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[email protected] · November 15th 12, 08:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 15/11/2012 15:56, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 14:34:43
on Thu, 15 Nov 2012, David Cantrell remarked:

If you use your PAYG Oyster card enough in a day that it would have
been cheaper to get a one day travelcard*, then you will only be
charged for a one day travelcard.

And the devil in the detail is "what travelcard". There was a worked
example discussed a few months ago that showed that lots of use in Z1,
plus one excursion to Z2 (or was it Z4) at the end of the day, gets
capped at the higher travelcard figure, which is noticeably more than
the Z1 travelcard plus the extra single fare.

There's no such thing as a Z1 only Travelcard (or PAYG cap) - only a
Z1&2 Travelcard / cap.

If it was an excursion to Z4, then I still can't make sense of that
whatsoever - I certainly can't make it compute as being more
expensive. If you can dig the discussion up, I'd be happy to take a
look at it.

FWIW, the fare tables for Oyster PAYG and Day Travelcards can be
found here...

TfL fare tables (travel on Tube/DLR/LO):
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx

National Rail:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14414.aspx

Perhaps a LU + NR Zone 4 journey when the Zones 1 & 2 travel was all on the
LU fare scale.

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Colin Rosenstiel