― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)
More to the point I WANT AN OYSTER CARD.
And an actual oyster or 12.
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)
Quite good really, I wonder if the same will happen here in London/UK. They had smart "Mondex" cards in my Uni that worked in a similar way but no one bothered to used it cos it only really worked within campus.
― ken c, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)
I think they're a brilliant idea, I just hope teething problems don't create bad first impressions of them, that will take years to overcome.
― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)
apparently the other types of ticket will be later this year - they said they'd have a price freeze on them when other tickets go up in the new year, so they'd better get them working before then...
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)
I want one but I don't really feel like paying more for one.
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)
they do look KEWL though ;)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)
you cd always keep an old travelcard behind the oystercard to flash if needed, i guess...
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
I still try to pay my leccy bill by inviting the meter-reader in for biscuits.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.oystercard.com/
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)
You don't have to take it out, which is brilliant, as you can carry on reading with one hand and flash your oyster with the other. I'm curious to know how it works with extensions, though. I have a zones 1,2,3 card, which I used to flash at the ticket bloke.
When there's been no barrier, I've just flashed the card and they've just taken my honest face as guarantee that I've paid the right fare!
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)
i shall be getting mine at the wknd hopefully
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Transport Police will turn up to your door at 3am and say "COME ON SONNY - TIME TO GO HOME NOW"
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)
I want one, but my gold card's valid until the 5th December :0(
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)
nothing really to contribute, just to gloat over how backwards the tube is compared to supposedly backwards countries like russia!
!
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Is there a way to find out dates? This could be a right PITA for monthlys, say.
Or am I just an Idiot.
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)
only some barriers in the Underground seem to show the message.
― chris (chris), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)
However I went to the pub every night last week.
Hm.
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)
That's what your Record Card is for, Starry. Or didja not get one?
You get all kind of messages on the gates at Warren Street, depending upon which way I exit the station - "No bagels today, Mikey?" "Brolly at the ready" and "Where's the missus today?"
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)
THE BUGGERS!
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 24 November 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 18 March 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 March 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 18 March 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)
― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 18 March 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 18 March 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)
Mine's pre-pay because I get the bus to work, so it isn't worth getting a card. And mine works on the Silverlink trains at least.
I really didn't want to get an Oyster, but the differences in fares made not having one ridiculous.
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)
besides the lower prices the attraction is the same as any credit card - u spendspendspend but u dont have to see the grubby cash to make u feel bad about it.
― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)
Q: how do you know when you are running low re pre-pay?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)
I resented the way TFL pretty much forced me into it by making all other options untenable. I don't like being told what to do.
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)
do they care if you move house? they have my old address.
prepay oyster cards are classic on bendy buses, i've made £20 last since january! and i think i still have a fiver on it. it didn't work on the silverlink last time i tried, though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)
― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)
it says on the thing when you beep on the bus/off the tube.
or you can use basic memory skills...
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)
You mean never being charged more than the cost of a one-day Travelcard/Bus Pass for your combination of journeys? It works. After your fourth or fifth interchange "0.00" appears in the barrier/bus ticket machine displays. The urge to go all the way to Hainault or Uxbridge at that point while quaffing champagne is hard to resist*.
(* - except, obv, you'd be charged for that if you hadn't already been out that far).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)
No, you don't. I think you did when they first came out, but I bought mine from the local offy where I used to get my weekly bus pass. Didn't have to tell them my name or anything.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)
― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)
When the discount disappears, or they allow me to carry it across, then I guess I'll switch. Having to haul my travelcard out of its little wallet every time I want to go through a tube barrier is a bit annoying I suppose.
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)
Bus Pass. It caps to whatever daily pass would suffice for the journeys you're making. Ten bus trips? Bus pass. Nip underground for Piccadilly Circus-Kings X? Z1 one-day travelcard. Go out to Turnpike Lane? Z1-4 one-day travelcard (there is no Z1-3 equivalent). Etc.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tickets/2006/oyster/general.asp#daily
Alternatively, if you are using only the bus or tram, you’ll pay no more than £3, 50p less than the price of a One Day Bus Pass
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)
How dare all this personal information be stored on one little card? Versus Oh, that's handy.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)
if i'd eaten a kebab last month, i'd have been trapped in highbury under the influence of drugs :O
awful.
― Raffles: Gentleman Thug (Raffles: The Gentleman Thug), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)
― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)
I need to check which zone Hackney is in. The rest will follow. (Aside from the ride in from Heathrow, obv.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)
i never made it to LA. went straight back to HNL. i'll be there soon enough though.
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)
― Friendly Tree (688), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)
Rock. Maybe I'll stick with z1-4 just in case...
i never made it to LA.
PUNK. Actually no worries, if you can time it right we can do a proper FAP next time -- just make it a weekend thing! Glad to hear you're back safe -- BTW, my folks and I are thinking we'll stick with our Sheraton plan for Hawaii unless there's something we should be aware of on your end, though my mom is checking through various package deals and the like.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 3 February 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 3 February 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)
― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 3 February 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 3 February 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)