"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at
07:36:16 on Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Matthew Dickinson
remarked:
There are calls from the newly set-up Ebbsfleet Urban Development
Corporation to extend Oyster coverage to Ebbsfleet.

In the Standard,

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/m...roperty-a-seco
nd-bite-at-the-cherry-in-this-garden-9653549.html?origin=internalSearch

"One priority will be to forge a tram link between the station and
Bluewater shopping centre. Another is to extend the current Oyster card
system out to Ebbsfleet

Extending Oyster to HS1 between St Pancras and Stratford would be a start!

Thy specifically don't want you to use HS1 for this journey so it will never
happen

tim