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I was planning on going to the Croydon tramwalk today (East Croydon to Elmers End) but the horrible weather (torrential rain) and the £7 cost of getting to Croydon and back put me off. Croydon is only zone 5, but because the train is not run by Transport for London it doesn't accept Oyster Cards and costs a lot more. It looks like I should be able to get a new travel discount though - I don't qualify for the Income Support 1/2 price deal, and people on Incapacity Benefit no longer qualify for the new deal pass. However I should qualify for the Disabled Persons Railcard (although not the Freedom Pass unlike in some Boroughs). This now gives you a discount on daily travelcards and Oyster Card daily max fares :) It's £18 a year, you need a letter from the Job Centre and to send off for it but it looks well worth it.
I tried to install two Loki games on Hardy last night. I followed the instructions for Sim City 3000 and patched the patch before patching it (still with me?). However it segfaults on start up. I think I need to download old copies of libraries in their own tree, in something that reminds me of linux emulation on BSD. Alpha Centuri still crashes when the pod lands. This has happened on all Ubuntus post Dapper according to google. The fix is to disable compositing in xorg.conf, of course new xorg.confs are pretty empty and mine doesn't have any mention. I'm gonna try adding a compositing bit with "disabled" to xorg.conf, all the work rounds suggest commenting out enabled but that doesn't work if X 7.3 presumes it's enabled by default.
I went to Brixton in the rain last night with my new shiny (and horrible RFID) British passport, and the HSDPA modem. The Vodafone shop examined my passport, scanned in the barcode on my modem and removed the blasted Content Control kiddy filter! "You'll now get the full service!" he said. About time! This means I can now look at contraband like flickr, and freenode's website. I can also use IM clients for the first time in a couple of years. I've set up pidgin with my google talk, yahoo and LJ talk IDs. Best way of getting hold of me is still freenode IRC though. |
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Why not buy a Travelcard for one day, zones 2 to 6 (say)? And leave the Oystercard at home?
Err that was the cost of a paper travelcard from 1-> 6. You can't use Oystercards on these services, if you could it would be cheaper.
I understand that is all depends what the journey details are, but in case where the Oystercard pre pay fails, I ditch the Oystercard and buy a travel card for the day. It often helps to consider and 2 to 6 travelcard, if zone 1 is not required, etc etc.
I don't tend to stay at home just for sake of an Oystercard failure (e.g. most of the Overground!)....
Oh I don't stay in when prepay fails at all - I stay in when I can't afford to travel. I couldn't afford to travel as I was forced to get a travelcard - £7 travelcard as 1-6 is required for London Bridge -> East Croydon. The single (and return) rail fares were more than the cost of the travelcard.
If tfl ran the route rather than 'First Capital Connect' it'd be more like £2.50 single rather than a fiver..
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2008-03-22 10:01 pm (UTC)
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As far as I can make out a CDR from Elephant to East Croydon is L3.70.
Buses are still capped at 3.00 per day (90p per single journey).
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2008-03-23 02:24 am (UTC)
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The weather was perfectly acceptable for the Tram Walk. We got lightly sprinkled on for about three minutes, and slightly muddy shoes, but that was it.
For future reference, I'll happily buy you a Travelcard if it's the only thing stopping you coming to a walk (for practical reasons this is as long as it's OK for you to pay for it and then me refund you when we meet up — will understand if this isn't possible). Also happy to buy you pints in pubs. | |
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