"Mizter T" wrote in message ...


On 15/11/2012 15:56, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 14:34:43
on Thu, 15 Nov 2012, David Cantrell remarked:

If you use your PAYG Oyster card enough in a day that it would have
been cheaper to get a one day travelcard*, then you will only be
charged for a one day travelcard.

And the devil in the detail is "what travelcard". There was a worked
example discussed a few months ago that showed that lots of use in Z1,
plus one excursion to Z2 (or was it Z4) at the end of the day, gets
capped at the higher travelcard figure, which is noticeably more than
the Z1 travelcard plus the extra single fare.

There's no such thing as a Z1 only Travelcard (or PAYG cap) - only a Z1&2
Travelcard / cap.

If it was an excursion to Z4, then I still can't make sense of that
whatsoever - I certainly can't make it compute as being more expensive. If
you can dig the discussion up, I'd be happy to take a look at it.

I think it may have been related to the peak cap. Something like one single
peak journey from Z5 to Z1, followed by a large number of journeys in Z1/2.
This would be charged at the Z1-6 peak cap (£15.80), instead of single +
Z1-2 peak cap (£4.40+£8.40).

Peter Smyth