London Banter - View Single Post - TfL To Remove Roadside Ticket Machines For Buses

Tim Roll-Pickering · September 13th 12, 10:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:

I suppose it makes sense to remove the machines as it will cut costs for
staff or contractors to go to each of these machines, carry out
maintenance and effect any needed repairs. Coin transport costs are also
not cheap, AIUI.

For presumably those reasons they've been withdrawn from stops outside the
cashless zone when the buses were debendified.

One of the harshest memories from when they were first brought in was when
machines broke down and drivers refused to take would-be passengers who said
this. A particular bad one involved a mother with a pushchair.

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