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

[email protected] · September 13th 12, 10:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 13/09/2012 23:32, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
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For presumably those reasons they've been withdrawn from stops outside the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.

The driver should have just waved the mother on board in that case, at
least as a one-off.

The others could have gone to the newsagent and bought tickets or topped
up their Oysters.