London Banter - Oyster pay as you go question

"Simon" wrote:

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:49:01 -0700 (PDT), yameste
wrote:

This week I intend to make the following journeys and i am
having trouble trying to work out how the oyster computer
will cost this journey.

Zone 5 to Zone 3 via Zone 1 Single Ticket at peak times 4.10
Zone 3 to Zone 1 off peak 2.50
Zone 1 to Zone 5 off peak 2.70
Bus 1.30

Will Oyster count the entire journeys as a one day travelcard
Zones 1-5 off peak. Or will it try to impose a peak travelcard
costing a whopping £15?

Total off peak fares are £6.50 so the £8.00 off peak cap is not
reached.
Total fares are £10.60 so the £15.00 peak cap is not reached.
So there will be no fare capping and you will (should) pay the total
of your single fares, i.e. £10.60.

I concur.

One thing to bear in mind is that merely making a (morning) peak journey
does not mean the only cap one is then eligible for is the peak cap - if an
off-peak cap plus the individual fares of any morning peak journeys comes to
less, then that's what one would be charged. (But in this instance, as Simon
says, the OP wouldn't even hit the off-peak cap.)

Oh, and the other thing is that there's no zones 1-5 cap (there did used to
be both z1-3 and z1-5 peak caps but they got abolished at the Jan 2011 fares
change) - so the relevant cap here is the zones 1-6 cap.