Oyster PrePay
Jan. 6th, 2004 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietAccording to the Oyster website, you are supposed to be able to buy Oyster cards at tube stations without registering. However, none of the people at the ticket offices appear to know how to do this - they say their system demands a registration form thingy.
However, they do not actually check the name & address they are given, so feel free to give them a false one. This was a successful approach.[0]
In other Oyster news: as of March 7th, not only will you be able to use PrePay on buses & trams, but it will become Magic. It will keep track of your journeys over the day, & if it transpires that it would have been cheaper for you to buy a Travelcard, rather than single tickets, then that's what you'll be charged for. And if the other way around, then the other way around. This is clearly Good.
[0] why did I insist on bothering? Because single tickets on Oyster cards are remaining at 2003 prices, that's why. And I am broke & also often take single journeys.
However, they do not actually check the name & address they are given, so feel free to give them a false one. This was a successful approach.[0]
In other Oyster news: as of March 7th, not only will you be able to use PrePay on buses & trams, but it will become Magic. It will keep track of your journeys over the day, & if it transpires that it would have been cheaper for you to buy a Travelcard, rather than single tickets, then that's what you'll be charged for. And if the other way around, then the other way around. This is clearly Good.
[0] why did I insist on bothering? Because single tickets on Oyster cards are remaining at 2003 prices, that's why. And I am broke & also often take single journeys.
