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Old March 31st 15, 08:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Chaos likely when they close ticket windows at King's Cross St. Pancras

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 18:51:18 on Tue, 31 Mar 2015,
Mizter T remarked:
And they haven't got a clean track record so far with Oyster capping,
where all they promise[1] turns out to be to cap to the cheapest
Travelcard that would once upon a time have been available for purchase,
and not try to work out if a slightly cheaper travelcard plus one single
from that card's boundary, might have worked out less expensive.

They've perhaps wormed their way out of that corner now by pretty much
having a flat fare for all paper day travelacrds.

[1] Mizter T can correct me if I'm wrong.


You are wrong, sorry!

If you do enough journeys within say zones 1&2 to reach a cap, and then
make a journey out to zone 6 (e.g. last day being a tourist in London
then out to Heathrow), you'll be capped for z1&2 and then pay a z3-z6 journey on top.


My impression was that they'd charge you for a Z1-6 travelcard.


Isn't it supposed to automatically charge for the cheaper of the two
possible options?