Comments on: Oyster prepay or Travelcard?

By: Wizman

Wizman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:12:29 +0000

Hey there,

nice tool, although as a bit of contructive critism, there is a glaring omission..

There are plenty of people whjo travel from outer london or outside of London to only one specific zone, e.g.Zone 2.

It is possible to get travel cardst hat are only zone 2-4, or any range of zones.

I believe this particular addon would be simple if you gave the actual raw data for the prices for these fares or how they’re calculated by Tfl.

Apart from that, great tool!

Thanks.

By: MattA

MattA — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:37:20 +0000

any plans for including train travel when the london stations come under oyster umbrella in jan 2010?

matt

By: GingerNinja

GingerNinja — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:56:41 +0000

I was going to say “Did you know this has been ripped off?” but noticed the copyright at the bottom, so maybe it hasn’t been? Take a look: http://www.mediauk.com/content/oyster-card-calculator.muk

By: Brian Betongde

Brian Betongde — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:04:02 +0000

Londonist are now linking to the site in one of their new articles:

http://londonist.com/2009/01/payg_comes_to_swt.php

Brian.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:05:59 +0000

Awesome work James, a six hour turn around is pretty phenomenal.

One thing to add maybe (for those lucky enough) is the option of an 18 – 25 rail card. Not many people know that you can put this onto your Oyster card (if you have registered your oyster online). It gives a 33% discount on one day travel cards, which effectively caps a days travel (zones 1 and 2 for example) at £4.80, which is cheaper (based on 5 days travel a week) than a weekly pass.

I’m not sure how this discount works on other zones, but it may be something worth considering.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:22:28 +0000

Blown away by this, James (again!). Interestingly, for my Zones 1 – 8 journey, the diff for an annual Oyster is marginal. But I didn’t factor in all the journeys between W1 and lovely W12 or social weekend trips.

By: Annie Mole

Annie Mole — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:06:17 +0000

Luckily for me (since I bought it in September) my Tavelcard is still the cheaper option. Like the new look calculator and added it to my post on Tube fare increases. Cheers :)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:16:25 +0000

I liked this. For me, it showed that using the Travelcard was the cheaper option. It didn’t take into account that I use the train to get in to town, for which I can only use a travel card not pre-pay, so my actual savings are probably more.

By: Briantist

Briantist — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:29:52 +0000

Thanks for the post James, I might give a little project of mine a go in the same way.

Not sure how you register a domain though Google Apps yet, but I’ll have a go later on.