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Old February 24th 12, 01:13 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Robert Neville Robert Neville is offline
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Default cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)

d wrote:

He must be one of those bloody annoying people who insist on paying for
a 2.50 sandwich with a credit card and causing a huge queue of ****ed off
hungry customers behind him.


That may have been true 10 years ago. Current terminals handle credit card
transactions far faster than cash and in most cases, don't even require a
signature if the value is under a certain threshold.