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Need to use the tube today, didn't have enough money on the oyster but had
a few quid in my pocket - 4.80 to be precise. As usual ticket machines not
accepting cash so go to ticket window:

"Can I top up please"

"Sorry, miniumum 5 pounds only"

"It says thats to prevent queues ,there is no queue , only me"

"Sorry, management blah blah more than my jobs worth blah blah..."

So I pay by card which takes probably 10 times longer and by the time I've
finished there are 2 people waiting behind - ie a queue.

If there's a ****wits-R-Us job agency they must be making a mint on the
commision for getting their candidates work at LU. Utterly ****ing
unbelievable.

B2003


Right.

You needed to use the Tube today.

As expected, the ticket machines wouldn't accept cash.

You needed to use the ticket window.

You're aware of a notice saying that the ticket office clerk
couldn't accept less than £5 for Oyster top ups.

You're also presumably aware of the fact that this applies to all Oyster
Top-Ups made at ticket offices however funded.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tro/13958.aspx

And has been the case since Jan 2010.

And yet knowing all this, that the ticket machine most likely
wouldn't accept cash, and that since Jan 2010 the ticket office
couldn't issue top-ups for less than £5, for some reason known only
to yourself, you still decided leave the house with only £4.80 in
cash.

And this is somehow all LU's fault.


michael adams

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