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Clive Page[_4_] · February 28th 11, 08:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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So, the advantage for casual users of not needing to get Oyster for their
occasional visit to London because they can use paywave disappears if they
have children with them. Terrific!

I imagine a lot of the early users will be tourists from other parts of
the UK and other countries. When visiting another large city I find
it's often quite hard to fathom out their equivalent of oyster works and
than actually buy one (and maybe recover one's deposit when leaving).

If visitors could just swipe a regular credit card it would save them a
lot of trouble, and still be cheaper than paying a large number of
single fares at inflated cash rates. Such customers might be willing to
forgive the other limitations, e.g. no capping or loading of railcards.

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Clive Page