In message , at 16:59:49 on Fri, 8 Aug
2014, tim..... remarked:
"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

Even more so for Ebbsfleet I'd have thought. There's a ten quid premium
on the Anytime fare for using HS1.
--
Roland Perry