Firstly LUL wanted something to replace paper tickets and once everything is
running you will have the equivalent of a capped fare for any one day. They
could not allow 1 day travelcards because the train operators haven't all
come over to Oyster card.

Also if the maximum fare is charged on your card because it wasn't touched
both ends of the journey, this can be corrected at the ticket office or with
a phone call.

Max fare is to discourage passengers from avoiding the correct fare for
their journey.

S

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"SJCWHUK" wrote in message
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John & Annabel's Query...............

John

Oyster cards with travelcards loaded are set to allow one exit outside
the
zones which would create a negative balance in the pre-pay slot. The
journey
you quoted via Stratford does seem to be the reason.

FYI. If you travel from a station where your travelcard isn't valid or
you
are using prepay, when you touch-in it will deduct the minimum fare for
that
zone (£1.10 or £1.60). If you fail to touch-out at your destination it
will
hold the fare at the minimum but after 2 hours will fix the fare at the
minimum and not create an unresolved journey.

What a load of fuss and bother. WHy the hell didn't LUL implement a
system
whereby you could put a fixed number of DAILY travelcards on your
oyster
so if someone travels somewhere on one day then the next date that
they use
their card one daily card is deducted. Simple and neat. And if they
need to go out of zone they simply top up the current daily card in
the oyster to
whatever zones they need. NO more did they /didn't they go through the
gate
nonsense with all this ******** about must touch in/out all the time
and
getting ripped off if you forget.
Still , its a simple logical solution which, this being LUL, is
probably why it
wasn't selected.

B2003