In message , at 12:26:40 on Sat, 21 Jan
2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
It means that customers have to acquire a new smartcard (electronic
purse or ticket wallet) for every different application. I know that in
theory there are "multi-product" cards, but I don't know of any examples
in the wild, and whether for example trying to load a bus pass onto a
library ticket is going to fall foul of red tape at the bus depot or
library.

My bus-pass is also my library card and works fine in both. Other
council "products" not relevant to me can also be loaded on it.

Yes, it wasn't a very well chosen example, as there are some combined
municipal buses and libraries (although I'm registered with a Notts
County library not a Notts City Library, oh the joys of living close to
a unitary authority).

But I don't think I could load my Notts County library card onto my
Notts City bus card).
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Roland Perry