"Tom Robinson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:56:04 +0000, Barry Salter
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:46:39 GMT,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:42:45 -0000, "Beano"
wrote:

If a supermarket put the price of bread up by 50% there would be uproar.
A
zone one single ticket has gone from £2 to £3. This is will rip off
tourists
and occasional tube users. Surely you can see this is extortionate.

Surely you'd have to be stupid to not see that getting an Oyster card
makes all the "rip off" bull**** disappear. Actually, _you_ probably
can't....

Further to this, it is to be hoped that station staff are offering
Oyster to people, particularly at stations like Heathrow, Tottenham
Hale, Liverpool Street, Victoria and Waterloo, where you're likely to
have a large percentage of overseas visitors.

And, of course, they don't even need to register the card, so it's just
a case of paying the deposit, putting some credit on it, and then going.

You have to admit this is a clever trick by LU though. By forcing
even the occasional user onto oyster prepay they're going to be left
with a LOT of cards with £6 or whatever sitting on them un-used. The
interest on all that cash is going to make them quite a bit.

Of course, it'll be even better when National Rail start universally
accepting Oyster PrePay...

Never gonna happen.

It will happen when Ken gets responsibility for the local services

which is going to happen sometime

tim


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