On 03/03/2016 15:28, Neil Williams wrote:

On 2016-03-03 14:45:58 +0000, Mizter T said:

No need for that level of complexity - you already said it, "a second
touch-in free" - i.e. one free transfer - within a time limit. No
people 'restarting the clock' like that.

Why only one? I can change as many times as I wish on a Tube journey.
It is not out of the question that the quickest way to do a particular
journey may be three buses (though four is heading towards the
proverbial goat herding), or Tube-bus-bus or bus-Tube-bus or whatever.

No break-of-journey on the Tube though, as is possible in Hamburg.


A single journey should be, like it is in Hamburg, a single journey. No
matter what you use to do it, it is one fare for a journey from point A
to point B.

Hamburg doesn't seem to have a time limit for a single ticket, but
there's certainly a limit in other Germany cities (e.g. Berlin, Munich).

As per HVV (Hamburg):
http://www.hvv.de/en/tickets/single-day-tickets/overview/index.php

---quote---
With the single tickets you get on, change lines, get off - and back on
again! Anything goes as long as it is on the most direct route to your
destination.
Round trips and return journeys are not permitted, however.
---/quote---


Have fun trying to program that for Oyster/contactless! (Presumably it'd
have to be Oyster MkII, i.e. account based... but still, enjoy...)