I noticed in one of last night's London freesheets that Ken is now taking a
different tack after his recent let off from a FGW penalty fare last week,
don't think I've missed a thread on it...

He appeared to be trying to turn things round into the usual TOC bashing
exercise, along the lines of 'I tried to get FGW to install barriers etc
years ago etc'. But on the route in question FGW DO accept PAYG, but only
as far as West Drayton, and clearly Slough is outside the 'zones'.

Now whenever the remaining TOCs [1] start accepting Oyster PAYG, there will
always be edge cases such as Slough, and all those other dormitory towns
that are just outside the zones, which are outside TfL's current ambit.

So what is the answer? In the expectation that Ken will eventually be able
to keep the issue alive by regularly attempting to make PAYG journeys to
places like Windsor, Weybridge, Epsom etc etc?

Whatever happens there will have to be cut off points somewhere, and as we
have discussed before, an ever expanding orbital zone system centred on
London isn't right for local journeys across the whole country, is it...

[1- let's not repeat all the discussions about reasons for the delay
please]

Paul S