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What happens if I don't swipe my Oyster card on leaving the tube?

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I have a month's travelcard and just a little bit of top-up. Sometimes the barriers are left open at my station and I'm always tempted not to swipe my card as Oyster stores my travel patterns and I'm dead against this. Would I get charged for this?

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If you do not swipe your Oyster as you go out of a station, you will be charged the full fare instead of a portion thereof.

Saw something in the Standard about this. Can't remember the exact figure, but apparently Transport for London have made a very nice big earner out of people who fail to swipe on exit. Think to the tune of several millions.

Tube Driver's eye view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKflLrxD...
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You will be registered as still on it for all eternity, however if you did it lots of times they would have you down there maybe 100 times at once, if everyone did it the tube would show as completely full all the time - what a laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!
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you would, either they take the full price off your oyster, or they charge you extra and send you a letter 14 days later that if you dont pay this charge (fine), they WOULD send you to court.

very tempting I know (especially on the DLR) BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE!

but they will not take all the money you've topped up, that is on your oyster - there not that evil!
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You get fined. My flatmate accidentally forgot to swipe for Oyster once and she received a fine letter a couple of days later. Suffice to say she was very annoyed. So swipe your Oyster every single time - better safe than sorry!
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If you are against the Government knowing your travel patterns, dont get an Oyster card.

Its good if you get stabbed and left for dead, then they know the route you took and can help convict the assailant. The travel is cheaper too.

If you are a terrorist or a criminal, then you can fear the card, otherwise you have nothing to worry about.

By the way, YES you will be charged.
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Free Buses in London

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Boris wont admit to this, but what actually happens is that the British Transport Police come round to your place at 4 in the morning, drag you out of bed, throw you into an unmarked van and take you off to a secluded warehouse out near Dartford. You are stripped, bound and blind-folded, subjected to 48 hours of non-stop "mind the doors" annoucements, and finally thrown into a thirty feet deep pool of real live oysters who haven't been fed for a month.....
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if you have a travelcard covering the zone that you are leaving then you are fine.

However if you have pay as you go top up then it will charge you maximum journey price.

But if you have lets say zones 1-4, how are they to know that you have not left out at zone 5 or 6 , so then they might charge you.
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