London Banter - View Single Post - Minimum Oyster top-up at LU ticket offices

Roland Perry · August 18th 10, 04:30 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 12:45:14 on Wed, 18 Aug
2010, d remarked:
And good luck doing the credit control on all those who default. If you
cut off someone's Oyster card, they just get another one - quite
difficult for your water supply.

So you make it a condition that anyone who applies needs to prove their
name, address and credit worthyness before they're allowed to have this type
of account.

Which leaves you with a minority of cardholders, probably.

Also FWIW water supplies can no longer be cut off completely.

Exactly. No such protection needs to be factored into the cost of Oyster
cards.
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Roland Perry