London Banter - View Single Post - Ghost trips appearing on the London Cycle Hire scheme

[email protected] · August 18th 10, 01:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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"Roy Badami" wrote in message
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On 18/08/10 09:20, Roland Perry wrote:

So it's a kind of "three tier" Oyster card scheme[1]. More
complication for customers to get their heads round

[1] Basic, registered, and registered + auto-topup.

Oh, it's much worse than that, because there's _real_ registration,
which involves handing in a paper form to a ticket office, and there's
the online thing which results in a card which isn't technically
registered, but has some (but not all) of the properties of a
registered Oyster card...

Ah, I wasn't aware of that latter distinction. Is it just a quirk
of history or is there some reason for it? And what can't an
on-line registered card do?

Can one register a railcard to an online-registered card?

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Colin Rosenstiel