Re: Oyster overcharging me at Marylebone

In message <20100202114647.GC20118@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:10:45PM +0000, Paul Terry wrote:

Not according to TfL:
"You must still touch in on a yellow card reader at the start of your
journey

But if I were to do that, I'd pay PAYG rates for the whole journey
instead of using my Travelcard.

I think TfL is referring to the start of your *Oyster* journey. If you use a paper travelcard for the first leg, they are saying that you need to touch in on a yellow reader when the Oyster part of your journey begins.

and touch out at the end to ensure you pay the appropriate
Oyster single fare and avoid paying a maximum Oyster fare. You can't
touch in on a pink card reader to record the start or end of a journey."

Which is not what I'd be doing. I'd be touching the pink thing to
tell the system that I was switching from travelcard to PAYG halfway
through my journey, not telling it that I was starting a journey.

As far as Oyster is concerned, it is the start of a journey. Oyster has no knowledge of how you got to the pink reader unless the previous leg of the journey was also on Oyster.

So, what *are* the pink things for then?

To identify that a PAYG journey has been made via a route that avoids Zone 1, thus allowing a cheaper fare to be levied, as I understand it.

--
Paul Terry
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