On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:16:28 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:


We haven't got an integrated system, and, if they'd done any research
before they came, they would know that.

All the physical evidence is otherwise.


But its not - is it?

Surely most tourists won't have an Oyster card anyway?

This thread started because I was charged £2 for a single that was much
more than I was expecting (as a tourist). And the advice from the
newsgroup was "get an Oyster card then".

That doesn't alter the fact that most tourists don't have Oyster
cards.


Why didn't someone make it a condition of national rails TOCs operating
within the Oyster area that they accept Oyster single tickets?

Why should they?

So that fares are the same from A-B [eg Ealing Broadway to Paddington]
irrespective of which trains you get.

The trains are run by different companies. They can charge different
amounts - and do. Just because tfl decided to go for Oystercards
doesn't mean the TOCs should be forced to as well.