On May 31, 10:03 am, "Richard J." wrote:
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

Unlike the DLR example (where failing to touch out is deliberate
fraud, although possibly not in a legal sense), I don't think he's
doing anything wrong here. As long as you use the Oyster pads where
provided, the fare calculated by the system is always authoritative,
and the zones travelled through are only advisory. This will be the
case until they add a "by a reasonable, direct route" clause to the
Oyster rules.

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