On 02/01/2014 19:02, 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.

My passport issued in 2006 doesn't have one so that means roughly a
third will not.