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![]() eastender wrote: Still frothing I see. Now let's see... it takes the same time to buy an Oyster at the ticket window as anything else, and of course you can also buy a travelcard, which most other transit systems provide. Actually no. It take longer, because my local NR station doesn't sell Oysters at all. The nearest newsagent which does is a quarter of a mile walk away! |
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solar penguin wrote:
Actually no. It take longer, because my local NR station doesn't sell Oysters at all. The nearest newsagent which does is a quarter of a mile walk away! And how many tourists are beamed down to enter the UK at your NR station? In any case, this is another issue. E. |
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Boltar writes Sure , you can use it in prepay mode but you'll pay through the nose if you make more than a few journeys whereas a travelcard is a one off cost. PAYG is capped at or below the rate of the equivalent one-day travel card and is therefore generally the cheaper alternative. -- Paul Terry |
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I had an Oyster once. I bought it because everyone said "Oh they're so
great!" But I ever only needed to use it two or three times in the two years I had it. Then next time I tried to use it, it just plain didn't work at all. The card had just died, and wouldn't respond to the readers. And I still had nearly five quid on it! I suppose I should have tried to register it, and sent off to get a replacement. But why bother for something I never use and probably won't work anyway...? Far simpler just to write my five pounds off as lost to the system. And in the the year since it's broken down, I've only _once_ been in a situation where I could have saved any money by using Oyster. I'd probably lose more money on faulty cards in the long run... So I _will_ be telling my friends and family to do the same, and stay well clear of Oyster. It's the most useless and over-rated piece of technology ever inflicted on the travelling public. And the sooner we're rid of it the better. Since I moved from the South East, I only go to London about once a month now, and since I got my Oyster in Feburary, every trip, bar 1 I have had a problem on. First time, the gates weren't working at Tott Ct Rd and I got an unresolved jrny (charged 50p too much), another time I had an odd journey: - "Canary Wharf - Unfinished Unstarted - Cockfosters" - ended up being overcharged by 50p One time, I was interchanging between NR and LU at Elephant & Castle, and didn't realise they were 2 separate stations, so didn't touch out when leaving NR station - paid another 50p. My last trip. Due to Overcrowding at Bond St (IIRC), they were exiting everyone by the Fire exit - couldn't touch out, and ended up with a 70p charge. Later on the same day, I did a journey Westminster - Canary Wharf, Heron Quays - Cockfosters. It got put down as Westminster - Heron Quays, and Unstarted - Cockfosters, paid another 50p. And the ripoff about it - trying to call their phoneline would almost certaintly end up costing more than the 50p you've lost, so most people (Including me) don't bother. On the last occasion, I went to the Ticketoffice to see if he could fix it, he seemed bemused about all of my problems, and said "That's Oyster for you" - which sums it up nicely for me. |
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Boltar wrote:
but people who are here just for a day or 2 and want to tour the city will want 1 day travelcards which Osyer doesn't support. Wrong - pre-pay Oyster caps at a cheaper rate than travelcards. E. |
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![]() eastender wrote: solar penguin wrote: Actually no. It take longer, because my local NR station doesn't sell Oysters at all. The nearest newsagent which does is a quarter of a mile walk away! And how many tourists are beamed down to enter the UK at your NR station? In any case, this is another issue. Tourists? What the **** have tourists got to do with anything? It's bad enough that TfL want Londoners like me to switch to to this almost useless, _completely unrealiable_ technology, and that those of us with the common sense to prefer reliable, tried-and-tested, old-fashioned technology _that actually works_ are expected to pay extra to subsidise those idiots who were stupid enough to rush in and embrace this dodgy, faulty, new option before its time. And now you're saying the reason that we've got to put up with it is because it might be better for tourist scum who shouldn't even be polluting our country with their presence in the first place! Call me a stagnant old stick-in-the-mud if you like, but I really do believe TfL and friends should be looking after the interests of people who actually _vote_ for them! |
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![]() eastender wrote: solar penguin wrote: Actually no. It take longer, because my local NR station doesn't sell Oysters at all. The nearest newsagent which does is a quarter of a mile walk away! And how many tourists are beamed down to enter the UK at your NR station? In any case, this is another issue. If the tourist lands at Gatwick? I assume you can't buy Oyster Cards at Gatwick. |
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![]() "eastender" wrote in message ... Boltar wrote: but people who are here just for a day or 2 and want to tour the city will want 1 day travelcards which Osyer doesn't support. Wrong - pre-pay Oyster caps at a cheaper rate than travelcards. Only if one doesn't want to use NR tim |
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