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"Bob Wood" wrote in
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Martin Underwood typed:

Forgive an equally naive supplementary: what is "capping" in this
context?

Individual fares are deducted from the balance until the daily 'capping'
level is reached. After that no more is deducted.

To take the simplest example, the off-peak Oyster bus fare is 80p. Make
one bus journey and 80p is deducted from your balance. Make another bus
journey and another 80p is deducted. Make a third bus journey and
another 80p is deducted, making £2.40 for the three journeys. Now comes
the clever bit - the daily cap for bus journeys is set at £3 - so,
you make a fourth journey and 60p is deducted. Nothing more would be
deducted for any further bus journeys on the same day.


If you took four bus journeys and then a single zone 3 tube journey, in
that order, would you be charged...

£3 (cap for bus pass) plus £1 (single Oyster tube journey in zone 3)
totallying £4

or

£3.20 (cap removed when Oyster realises a tube journey is then taken)
plus
£1 (single Oyster tube journey in zone 3) ???


If it's the above, then that's cool.

If it's the second option, then perhaps it's a good idea to have two PAYG
cards - one for buses, and one for tubes when bus caps have been reached!

None of the above. You would be charged 80p for the tube journey to bring
you up to £3.80 (the Zone 2-6 travelcard cap) as this would be the cheapest
available ticket covering all of your journeys.

You would be disadvantaged if you used more than one card as you describe.