Information seeking challenge

[lovingboth]

If you want to travel outside the area ('zone') of London covered by your travelcard, you need to buy a Ticket Extension before you set off.

Your challenge is to find out, solely from the Transport for London website proclaimed as the official definitive source of such information, how much they currently cost.

Let me know how long it took...

Comments

[meirion.livejournal.com]

it's possible, not being a londoner, that i fail to grasp the import of your question. but i think i found the answer on page 40 of the comprehensive fares and ticketing information pdf file linked from the fares and tickets page. and if so, it took me 3 minutes.

-m-

[lovingboth]

You mean the "You wish to travel beyond the validity of your Travelcard" section of "Fares and tickets 2004 - Comprehensive fares and ticketing information" leaflet/PDF in the Fares & Tickets section?

Nope, that just tells you to look elsewhere.

And despite calling what's required a "Ticket Extension" elsewhere, it doesn't even call it that there.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

oh, so page 41 of that leaflet is talking about something else is it? (what? there is no title, so one might naively assume that they were talking about the same thing as at the bottom of page 40).

-m-

[lovingboth]

One Day LT Cards (see top right corner!)

It's the way they tell you to look on the website that's particularly annoying.

[nitoda]

I gave up after three minutes - the PDF files were refusing to behave and I couldn't read them, but I expected to find the answer somewhere in one of them.

Having another go ...

[nitoda]

I've got to this link http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tickets/2004/general-information-what-happens-if.shtml but when I follow the link to http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/downloads/pdf/fares-tickets/oyster-wallet-insert.pdf it is singularly unhelpful and very difficult for me to understand. This may be because I'm not familiar with London ticketing yet ... but still, it should be written in much simpler language and much more clearly for all the many many people that applies to! The inference I'm getting is that one can use the travelcard up to its limit but then the fare from the limit to the destination becomes payable. Is that correct? Is it even the question you were asking?

Re: Having another go ...

[lovingboth]

Sort of - the idea is that you have to have a valid ticket (or combination of tickets) for the journey to intend to make.

Because most stations aren't on a boundary between zones, and most people wouldn't want to get off, go to the ticket office, get another ticket, go back onto the platform and wait for another train...

... you can buy extensions to a travelcard, before you start, allowing your journey to go outside its zones.

The question is, how much does that cost?