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[email protected] · January 2nd 14, 11:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Phil) wrote:

Mizter T writes:

On 02/01/2014 16:24, tim...... wrote:
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If TfL are expecting your average foreign tourist to start paying for
tickets using "pay wave" credit cards I think that they are tilting at
windmills

You only have to look at the number of suitably "qualified" individuals
who don't go through the self service passport check (at no risk and
sometimes considerable time cost) to see how "frightened" the average
person is of such technology

They might not have a chipped passport yet. (Or have no passport - the
gates don't work with Euro national identity cards.)

Can't be many non-chip UK passports left now.

But you see the same everywhere, how few use pay-at-pump, although
self-service checkouts do seem to have gained acceptance.

Forced in by supermarkets maybe. I refuse to use them. "Unexpected item in
bagging area" is hassle I don't need.

Have yet to see anyone else use a pay wave card in my local co-op
though.

Nor me in local Sainsbury and ASDA.

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Colin Rosenstiel