London buses to offer contactless payment card option from tomorrow(12/12/12)
On 13/12/2012 16:54, tim..... wrote:
"Paul Corfield" wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:31:24 -0800 (PST), CJB
wrote:
And if the bus service is curtailed - that is cut short of its
destination - then when you board the bus behind you end up paying
twice. That's a scam that TfL have been running for years. It nets
them millions of pounds extra profit. Tourists are usually affected by
this the most. CJB.
As the bus network requires £400m subsidy a year (figure quoted by a
Mr Peter Hendy in a recent London Assembly session) I struggle with
the concept of TfL making "millions of pounds *extra* profit".
I would also be grateful if you could point to the data that underpins
your "interesting" [1] statement. You also need to be careful with
words like "scam" which suggests deliberate intent to rip people off.
however not fixing the OSI "bug" does seem to be deliberate.
Nonsense.
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