London Banter - View Single Post - Another Oyster Prepay Thread

TheOneKEA · December 27th 03, 11:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london

(Neil Williams) wrote in message ...
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:24:30 +0000, Paul
wrote:

I got the feeling they are dreading the complexity of issueing and
explaining the Oystercards to people!

I do wonder whether the complexity is resulting from the fact that a
traditional, complicated, paper-style fare structure is being retained
on what is essentially a new concept in ticketing, and the two don't
go together well.

Simplify and flatten the fare structure substantially, and it'll work
a lot better.

Neil

But how would you simplify it? The zoning system is a good idea IMO
because of the freedom and flexibility it offers, but how do you
flatten the fare structure without knocking the entire revenue stream
out from under LU?

If everybody used Pre-Pay or Season Oystercards, it wouldn't be so
much of an issue - they could use whatever fare structure they wanted,
as long as people touched a validator at the correct spots, right?

Brad