Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

I still end up buying paper tickets, especially weekday ODTCs (and
yesterday's platform ticket) but I like not fumbling with change and
like entering King's Cross Underground from the rail station, which only
ticket holders can do.

The Kings Cross thing is the single reason I have Oyster prepay.

Forget the fact that I always need a One day travel card - easier just
to jump into the tube on prepay and get a travelcard at a station with
less than a 25 minute queue.

Now, when they make capping work it will all be nice.
In the meantime, I propose 2 interim solutions:

One option would be for them to allow purchase of 1 day travel cards on
the website.
I can see that they don't want to sell 1 day travelcards individually on
the web - the card processing would eat into it. But they ought to be
able to let you buy a 1 day travelcard online using your prepay balance?

Or a second option would be if you could go to a ticket machine and ask
it to add a 1 day travelcard to your oyster - and if it could knock off
your last couple of same dayjourney's off the price. This would save
the system having to work out when to cap - you tell it. You can
just combine your days tickets and (plus or minus)


Or - they put special oyster pads in stations - you just touch them and
it loads a 1 day travel card onto your card - paid for by prepay.. Not
sure how they handle different zone options though.

Unless true - on the fly - capping is nearly ready. I hope it is soon.

Tim

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:39:16 GMT, Tim wrote:

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

I still end up buying paper tickets, especially weekday ODTCs (and
yesterday's platform ticket) but I like not fumbling with change and
like entering King's Cross Underground from the rail station, which only
ticket holders can do.

The Kings Cross thing is the single reason I have Oyster prepay.

Forget the fact that I always need a One day travel card - easier just
to jump into the tube on prepay and get a travelcard at a station with
less than a 25 minute queue.

I know the LU ticket office queues can be awful but surely the GNER and
Great Northern ticket offices and GN ticket machines would sell you a
One Day travelcard as well?

Just wondering if you've tried that option.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Paul Corfield wrote:


I know the LU ticket office queues can be awful but surely the GNER and
Great Northern ticket offices and GN ticket machines would sell you a
One Day travelcard as well?

I've not tried that. But will next time.



Tim

Tim typed


Paul Corfield wrote:


I know the LU ticket office queues can be awful but surely the GNER and
Great Northern ticket offices and GN ticket machines would sell you a
One Day travelcard as well?

I've not tried that. But will next time.

The sweet shops known as 'Ticket Stops' will send you ODTC in advance,
as will Tube ticket offices.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:


The sweet shops known as 'Ticket Stops' will send you ODTC in advance,
as will Tube ticket offices.

Not in Yorkshire

If you buy in advance, do you have to choose the day or does it just
work for the day you first use it?

Tim

Tim typed


Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:


The sweet shops known as 'Ticket Stops' will send you ODTC in advance,
as will Tube ticket offices.

Not in Yorkshire
No

If you buy in advance, do you have to choose the day or does it just
work for the day you first use it?

You buy for a specific date, which gets printed and encoded onto the
ticket. If it's off-peak, you tell the shop person you won't use if
before 0930 on a weekday.

You can only buy up to 4 days in advance IIRC. I suppose you could just
about get a friend/colleague in London to buy you one and post it to you
(if you trust the Royal Mail...)

Shame they haven't got 'capping' in order yet, isn't it?

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

You can only buy up to 4 days in advance IIRC. I suppose you could just
about get a friend/colleague in London to buy you one and post it to you
(if you trust the Royal Mail...)

It is seven days for the one day and weekend travelcards, the four days is
for weeklys and longer. So even more time.

I would have thought the FastTicket machines at Kings Cross do one day
travelcards though and there must be about eight of them in the booking
hall.