"umpston" wrote in message
om...

But there is still no mention on oystercard.com of the pre-pay system
which has been much discussed on this group whereby, for multiple
journeys, you would be charged for the approprate 1-day travelcard (or
was it LT Card?) for the zones you have traversed if that is cheaper
than the sum of the fares for your single journeys.

Does anyone know if/when will this system be brought in - and why
isn't it mentioned on the Oystercard site? Am I wrong to suspect the
system can't cope with it yet? I do hope I am wrong, but it does seem
odd to introduce an 'interim' prepay system now if they are going to
add the daily travelcard capability later - it will confuse customers.
Better to delay until the system is ready.

Until they sort this out pre-pay will be a very unsatisfactory system
since, if you expect to do a number of journeys in a day, you will
need to decide whether your Oyster pre-pay fares (2003 prices) offer
a saving or whether you'd be better off buying a paper travelcard that
day, which will seem absurd when you already have an oyster in your
pocket!

There are currently 'undocumented features' causign the system not to deal
effectively with multiple journeys. Staff training, bar those in the ticket
offices and a select number of station staff is IMHO inadequate to the
extreme. Yet another project that has great potential but is being
introduced without well thought out implementation.