"solar penguin" wrote in message
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But compare that with how easy it is to fall across problems with
Oyster PAYG. It's unlikely you could use it for even a few trips
without coming across some sort of problem. That's the difference.


There are certasinly things I don't like about Oyster, particularly the need
to *not* touch accidentally on NR pads when I'm using a combination of paper
NR tickets and Oyster. However, over the last few years of PAYG usage the
only problems I've encountered have worked in my favour - usually pads on
buses not working resulting in a free journey. OTOH an NR gate at Victoria
swallowed my paper ODTC as I was exiting the other day, and I was half way
across the concourse before I realised what had happened and it was too late
to do anything about it. This cost me about £18 in single fares to continue
my journeys that day for the loss of a ticket that had only cost about £12
in the first place.

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DAS