Originally Posted by
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Just to let Londoners (mainly) know in case they haven't seen it: the dreaded Oyster Extension Permit, which confused many Oyster holders with a travelcard on their Oyster but intending to travel out of zone using their payg balance, is to be abolished from a date to be confirmed in late May. See
this very useful site.
It wasn't dreaded - it was just ignored, not least because few people knew about it and fewer understood it!
It only ever came about because the train companies demanded it as a condition of their eventual agreement to accept Oyster Pay-as-you-go on their services - TfL went along with this only grudgingly. The hope from the beginning was that the OEP was such an awkward system that it wouldn't last long... and lo it has come to pass!