On Mar 12, 8:52*pm, solar penguin wrote:
Given how many faulty Oyster readers there are out there, that's the
most likely explanation. *There's one reader at Gipsy Hill that reads
the card and opens the barrier to let you out, no problems, but
sometimes doesn't always manage to write to tell the card that the
journey's been completed! *Three times it given me an Unresolved
Journey because of that! *I've tried telling the station man about it,
but he doesn't believe and/or understand it!

FWIW, nor do I. If the light's gone green and the barrier's opened, I
don't think it's *possible* for the system to leave your journey
unresolved.

_That's_ why Oyster is a real con. *It promises you "Sacrifice your
privacy and you'll be rewarded with cheap offpeak fares that you used
to get on paper anyway," but then it doesn't always keep its side of
the bargain and give us those cheap fares! *You don't need additional
conspiracy theories about SouthEastern and OEPs, when the basic
concept of Oyster is already such a nightmare!

Except that the basic concept of Oyster as on buses, LU, LO, Tramlink
and DLR is completely unproblematic - the only issue is the way in
which the TOCs have implemented it (slowly, grudgingly, on a
ridiculous fare-scale and with ridiculous extra rules like OEPs).

The sooner paper offpeak cheap day returns are restored within the
London area, the better!

They'll cost four shillings and six each, I believe. And you'll get to
ride on slamdoor mk1 stock powered by steam.

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