On Mar 27, 1:06*pm, "Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:

In message , Paul Scott
wrote:
The 'capped peak' is the maximum you can ever pay, you can't be charged
both caps added together - but you can end up with a daily total that
is somewhere between the two caps.

Put another way, you will always pay the lowest of these three choices:
(1) the peak cap;
(2) the off-peak cap plus the total cost of the individual peak-time
journeys;
(3) the total cost of the individual journeys.

If you don't travel in the peak, then (2) becomes the off-peak cap.

I think that's a good concise summary.

When the zones 2-6 and 2-9 caps existed, there used to be the (remote)
possibility of reaching both a peak and an off-peak cap in one day -
e.g. last year (2010) a zones 1&2 peak cap was GBP7.20, and an off-
peak zones 2-6 cap was GBP5.10, so a grand total of GBP12.30, whilst
the peak zones 1-6 cap was more expensive at GBP14.80.

Now the zones 2-6 and 2-9 caps are gone, that possibility is no longer
- however it's still possible to reach both the bus cap and an off-
peak cap in one day, i.e. if one travels on enough buses (four) during
the morning peak period (0430-0930) then makes the requisite number of
Tube/rail journeys thereafter in the appropriate zones - this will
only work when the gap between the peak and off-peak cap is greater
than the bus cap (currently GBP4.00), if it's less then only the peak
cap would kick in.

Example - four morning peak bus journeys at GBP4.00, plus enough Tube/
rail journeys to reach the off-peak zones 1-6 cap of GBP8.00 - so a
grand total of GBP12.00, which is less than the z1-6 peak cap of
GBP15.00.