Thread: Oyster: still an unreliable rip-off
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Old April 24th 14, 06:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Oyster: still an unreliable rip-off
In article , (Roland Perry)
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In message , at 20:51:18
on Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Richard remarked:
a user should be able to keep to the "always touch in and out"
requirement -- regular, tourist or whatever. It isn't difficult!

There are still bear-traps for the unwary. For example getting off a
train at a London terminus having travelled that far on a paper
ticket, clutching an Oyster for onward tube travel, and using it to
"always touch out" at the barrier line, results in an unresolved
journey.

Go through a gate that opens in front of you and discover the touch hasn't
been registered, giving an unresolved journey. My wife got two out of two
from King's Cross to Westminster and back in 2011.

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Colin Rosenstiel
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