Reminder on Oyster/Travelcard Usage and Capping limit

Hi Mike,

There’s an awful lot of missing info in that question? I’ll guess that you have a railcard and that the Underground journey will involve zone 6 and be after 0930 rather than before 0630.

My best guess is that you won’t be capped in that scenario. The most you can pay on buses in one day is £4.65 and the off-peak zone 1-6 tube journey is £2.20 making a total of £6.85.

If you were to make more tube journeys, or travel once in the evening peak, then it would depend on how many of your chargeable (ie not hopper) bus journeys were before 0930. They would not count towards the off-peak cap but would be added on afterwards. Worst case would be three chargeable bus journeys before 0930 (difficult with the hopper) making £4.65 and enough tube journeys to reach £8.85 at which point the anytime daily cap of £13.50 would cap you just before the £8.90 off-peak cap could.

Take a look at the capping examples page.

Mike, it turns out it really does not depend whether you’re holding a free bus pass of other councils under English National Concessionary Travel Scheme.

If you merely holding Disabled Railcard added to your Oyster, your journey details will end up like what Mike the admin suggested and you will not be capped because your total fare has not reached the Off-peak Railcard Daily cap of £8.90, rather you will be capped for bus journeys at £4.65 and have the fare of the solitary tube ride on top of that.

If you do hold a free bus pass under the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme, your bus journeys would be free after 0900 as mentioned here: https://tfl.gov.uk/transport-accessibility/fares-and-tickets In this case only bus journeys before 0900 would be charged via your Oyster, which under Hopper Fare would amount to £1.55 only.

Morden is in zone 4 so the anytime cap is £7.00. It doesn’t matter when you travel during the day.

Of course! I really should have checked which zone Morden is in! 🙂