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Only a year late: Oyster finally introduce fare-capping from 27 Feb (link downloads PDF of guide to fare capping). Hurrah.

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That's kinda cool. And I never realised you could do the pre-pay thing for oyster cards. Since, as far as I can see, they have no expiry it might be worth buying one of those even though I am not that much of a regulaar london transport user.

Cool. :)

Indeed you can - & single journeys with an Oyster are cheaper than single journeys with a paper ticket (by about 20p/journey). No, don't think there's any expiry - you do have to pay a 3quid deposit for the card itself, though.

So I have four pints instead of five :)

Wow. Should probably do that then. I can't see any reason not to get an oyster card. :)

Apart from the intrusive data gathering and lack of proper controls on that data?

There is no requirement for registration for a pre-pay card. It gives you the advantage of protecting whatever money you have on it but as far as I can tell this means you don't have to give them any of your details. Given I'd only want it for pre-pay this seems not a big problem.

What are the problems with their data gathering then? You got a website or something to point me at (to save you writing it out at great length)?

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