Phil Richards wrote:

Neil Williams wrote:

Alternatively, it could be sold as a benefit of Oyster, as it is with
the Dutch Strippenkaart[1] - say, once you touch in for any bus
journey, you may touch in for free an unlimited number of further times
on different buses[2] within an hour, two hours or whatever. If that
offers a quick return, so be it - I don't think they'd lose a lot from
people doing that.

Plus the scenario when the bus gets terminated short of the destination
advertised on the blinds on the front at the time you boarded! I know
drivers are supposed to issue a transfer ticket, but I'm not sure that
happens often in practice. So if using PAYG Oyster you loose out by
paying for a 2nd ride.


I regularly use a bendy bus route where buses sometimes get turned
short. When I get turfed out and get on the next bendy bus I don't
touch-in and pay again - going by the logic that I paid for the whole
journey the first time round so I ain't going to pay again!

I haven't yet been checked on the second bus when I've done this but I
don't think it's be a problem whatsoever, for two reasons:

(1) I've a feeling that the simpler calculatoresque handheld Oyster
readers merely check whether you've validated your Oyster on a number X
bus, rather than specifically validated it on the actual specific bus
you're on (as when the RPIs board they don't appear to configure their
handheld Oyster readers for that specific bus, and as they're all
focusing on one route then I think they configured it earlier for that
route, if you see what I mean).

(2) I think the revenue inspectors would be absolutely fine with it -
they're after people who are evading their fares after all.

If and when I ever get checked on a second bus when I've been turfed
off the first one early and I'm using Oyster PAYG then I'll report back
to utl and tell you the outcome. I'm almost certain I'll have nothing
dramatic to report.