Richard J. wrote:
sweek wrote:
On 30 May, 20:37, XmaX wrote:
Hi, I recently heard that from the moment of touching in, I have 2
hours to touch out, otherwise I will pay the penalty for not
touching out. Is that true?

I heard they upped it to 3 hours even, but I'm actually not sure
about that.


But I'm quite sure you're completely safe when you do this. It might
not be the right way of doing it, but there's no (practical /
realistic)way they can find this out.

Last weekend I had to bring some of my friends to the Stansted
Express. I didn't want to pay for two single trips, the normal way
of doing this is going Manor House to Liverpool Street (Victoria
Line partly closed and the trains not stopping at Tottenham Hale,
grr) and Liverpool Street back to Manor house. Instead, I touched
in at Manor House, did not go through the gate at Liverpool Street,
and touched out at Finsbury Park, which is close enough to where I
had to be.
So the only thing registered here is a zone 2 to zone 2 trip for a
pound. I don't really feel like this is fare-dodging,

Of course it is! You deliberately travelled through Zone 1.

Also, if you "had to" take some of your friends to the Stansted Express,
they must have thought you a bit unfriendly to just dump them on the LU
side of the gates and leave them to find Stansted Express on their own,
just because you wanted to save money by defrauding LU.

Is there a way for him to buy a single ticket on Oyster that is not
fraudulent for this journey? On a paper ticket I assume he would be fine
with a Zone 12 single.

I've gone to Gloucester Road before to gawk at the art installation that
TfL was advertising all over the system. When I did this I was on a
Travelcard, but if I were using PAYG how could I be sure to avoid fare
evasion or a double maximum fare?
--
Michael Hoffman