I’ve just received the latest update to OSIs which appears to have been introduced in October. There are a few housekeeping changes including deletion of the now redundant OSIs between Blackfriars NR and Temple/Mansion House. They’ve also deleted the OSI between the parts of Wembley Central as you no longer have to leave the station to get to the Southern platforms.
On the plus side they have introduced a new OSI between Ickenham and West Ruislip
Along with thousands of others, my eldest has just made the transition from 11-15 zip to 16+ zip. Prompted by the letter received in late August I applied online for the new card. As his school is just outside London I had to print a letter for the school to sign and stamp, then take the letter and payment to the post office. However, the photo and age verification were completed online which no doubt sped up the process. Less than two weeks later
Continuing the farce that is the provision of free travel around London for volunteers, officials and competitors, I keep hearing about extensions to the validity of the zones 1-6 travelcard that most people have. Before it’s too late, this post will attempt to keep track of those that I can verify.
I have heard via a site visitor that there are two new OSIs in place for the period of the Olympics and Paralympics. The first one is between Aldgate and Aldgate East and works as long as you touch back in within 20 minutes, either way round. The second one is between London Bridge NR … Read more
Wow, have the authorities managed to screw things up over the headline Javelin services to Stratford International. Ordinarily the HS1 line between St Pancras and Gravesend or Ashford via Stratford and Ebbsfleet is a premium service. As such, travelcards and Oyster cards are not valid on the services and there are no Oyster readers on the gatelines. But London 2012 is the public transport games and needs to be as simple as possible.
I’ve now managed to get some official information about the various cards being issued to volunteers at the Olympic and Paralympic games.
Firstly, it appears that the Mayor’s ambassadors
This post has largely been superceeded by this revised version.
I’ve had a couple of questions about these Oyster cards which are being supplied to volunteers who are helping visitors to London and the games during the Olympics.
In the last week both BBC London and the Evening Standard have run stories about passengers being charged £4.60 to walk through part of Paddington station. The reporter from the Evening Standard even phoned me up and talked through what was happening. I suggested to him that this was a simple Same Station Exit, but sadly that didn’t explicitly make it into the article. More alarmingly, TfL staff didn’t seem to know what was going on and promised to investigate what was happening. In an effort to understand the issue clearly I went to Paddington myself last Thursday evening.
I noticed yesterday that the times reported on the journey history screen are all out by an hour since the clocks went forward last Sunday. The times shown are a further hour ahead so it looks like something is compensating for summer time when it doesn’t need to. The Oyster system clock is correct so … Read more
Several visitors have reported problems when touching out and back in again at the same station. The system tries to combine the two journeys into one, often resulting in a pair of incomplete journeys when you get back to your starting station. But if your journey included an OSI en-route then you may well end up out of the system altogether and be given a penalty fare!