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Old February 27th 11, 09:40 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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Default Oyster ticketing developments


On Feb 27, 1:47*am, wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:

On Feb 26, 3:02 pm, wrote:


What about more than one person using the same card? I use my credit
card to buy tickets for all the family quite often.


I don't think it'd be any different to Oyster - any one credit/debit
card could only be used in this way by one person at any one time (and
strictly speaking at least I'd expect it should only be the named
cardholder).


Multiple (regular, paper) tickets could still be purchased in one
transaction using a debit/credit card from the ticket office or ticket
machine.


People using the wrong card to get through a gate - or erroneously
using a card when they've already got a paper ticket - is an obvious
issue one can foresee about this development.


Rather destroys the pay-wave system for adults with children then.


Yes, I think they might as well give up and cancel the whole project,
since you've pointed that out I can now see there can't possibly be
any utility in this system whatsoever...