On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Peter Masson wrote:

As it is, if you have to make several journeys by bus and/or tube in a
day, Oyster PAYG is what you want, but add just one National Rail
journey on which Oyster PAYG is not accepted, and you need a paper ODTC
- but if you hold a Railcard you may want the paper ODTC anyway (but
only at weekends if it is a Network Card), even if you are not going to
use National Rail.

How about if you could use pre-pay to buy an ODTC, and the way it worked
is that it just charged you enough to take you up to your cap. Then you
could roam around on PAYG, and convert to paper if you decided you wanted
a go on a train.

The process might also nullify the accumulated journeys on the card, to
avoid people fraudulently getting lots of free travelcards from one
oyster. Or it could print the travelcard saying "only valid with Oyster
card number such-and-such".

tom

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