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Nick Cooper · **New fares from 2 January 2006 - pdf**

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:52 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:12 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(TKD) wrote:

The £3 deposit can be recouped from two journeys from next year
so its hardly a moot point.

Cash - 2 x Zone 2 (£3) singles = £6

Oyster - 2 x Zone 2 (£1) prepay = £2 (+ £3 deposit) = £5

Not only recouped but a pound saved.

A very basic fact the anti-Oyster brigade seem incapable of
understanding!

The *minimum* cash fare of £3 will get the message home.
I don't think people quite understand the implication of it just
yet.

From January just going one stop, even in zone 6, and paying cash
is going to cost £3 (instead of £1 on Oyster). This is a mark-up
of 200%. If this is prominently advertised at the ticket machines
and explained properly by staff surely only the insane would resist
migration to Oyster?

it's called ripping off outsiders.

I suppose my mother, who lives in Newcastle. would count as an
"outsider," except that she has - and happily uses - an Oyster card,
of course.

She being outside NSE can't buy tube-inclusive tickets anyway. Anyone in
NSE can do so but not for quite all journeys. Hence a very limited and
possibly pretty infrequent need for Oyster.

So perhaps you would like to revise your use of the term, "outsiders,"
then?
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