"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
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"tim \(moved to sweden\)" typed



The TFL website recommended purchasing in advance to avoid waiting in
long queues.


This is a standard ticket that can be bought from the machines.

Er, yes, which can have long queues at them.

not that long, a few minutes perhaps.

tim

I don't think I'd like to be hanging around a ticket machine if I had
loads of luggage. The machines can seem quite bewidering to me, and I'm
fairly familiar with them! If I were planning a trip in advance, I'd try
to get a PrePay Oyster and pass it on to friends, when they visit
London. I don't know whether you can get Oyster cards sent to the USA
(though I see no reason why this should not be possible)

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

I may look into an Oyster card.
It is very annoying that the travel card is good for only one specific day.
It is not as if it is reserving a seat.
The clock for expiration should not start until it is first used.
I may mail them back to the UK for refund.

John wrote:

I may look into an Oyster card.
It is very annoying that the travel card is good for only one specific day.
It is not as if it is reserving a seat.
The clock for expiration should not start until it is first used.
I may mail them back to the UK for refund.


Ermm the One Day Travel Cards (ODTC) have a date printed on them. This
is so bus drivers, ticket inspectors, etc. are able to find out if the
ticket is valid or not by meerly glancing at it rather than feeding it
through a machine (which would take a lot of time)

If you want a ticket which is a ODTC but not tied to a specific date
then get an Oystercard for each person (www.oystercard.com) and put on
enough prepay to pay for a travelcard then just use it (as long as you
are only traveling by tube, bus, tram and/or dlr)

Chris! wrote:
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Ermm the One Day Travel Cards (ODTC) have a date printed on them. This
is so bus drivers, ticket inspectors, etc. are able to find out if the
ticket is valid or not by meerly glancing at it rather than feeding it
through a machine (which would take a lot of time)


And if you buy them from a shop which stamps the ticket manually (no
machine), then they are validated by their first use, regardless of the
date stamped.

A lot of time to feed a ticket through a machine? I'd have thought that
inspectors would have that time (30 seconds at the most) and there's no
reason why bus drivers should have to inspect tickets in any case.

Paul