Paul Scott wrote:
As an irregular user of LU services I now have a PAYG Oyster card, and it
was failing to touch half way through a journey when transferring NR to LU
that confused my account on a trip from Marylebone to Watford, changing at
Harrow on the Hill. The readers at Harrow simply say Oyster PAYG users must
touch out (or something like) - couldn't they, and those at any 'transfer'
point be more informative?

I ran into the opposite problem at HotH: I touched at the platform
reader while transferring from Chiltern to LU, but when I eventually
exited the system, Oyster thought I had already exited at HotH and
didn't know where I had just come from.

Granted, it took me a while to exit, having ventured well outside my
zones to Watford, Amersham, and Chesham before returning to Northwick
Park. And the extra £1 I was charged was, IIRC, slightly less than the
difference between the Z1-6 cap (which I had already hit at Cockfosters)
and the Z1-D cap, so I have no grounds for complaint. But if I do the
same thing under the new policy, intending to pay the Z1-D cap, I will
instead be hit with a substantially higher fine -- one which somebody
using a Travelcard would have avoided entirely, simply for using a
Travelcard.
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA