On Apr 24, 12:01*am, "Richard J." wrote:
MarkVarley - MVP wrote:
From what I've seen ticket inspectors can see only bus number and time
when they check your oyster, and I doubt a 5 minute break would be
noticed, but I was curious if there was an allowance for such with the
logic that I'm boarding a bus and paying for an hours journey so have
paid from point 'a' to point 'b', it seems the powers that be don't
agree with that.

That's because you're not paying for an hour's journey; you're paying for
the journey that ends when you leave the bus. *Since you're doing so in
order to visit a bank, the break in journey has value for you, so why
shouldn't you pay for it?

Yes we know what we ARE paying for. I am trying to remove the
blinkers that say "that's just the way it is". The rule that you pay
per vehicle you sit in is a by product of archaic ticketing systems;
it doesn't follow from some principle of what's fair (or good
marketing).


And to the poster who claimed that with private transport (e.g. your own
car) you could break the journey without any extra cost, have you forgotten
about the cost of parking, and the time and cost of driving around looking
for a free meter?

There are plenty of places where you can stop at a shop without using
a parking meter. Some of them have their own free car parks.