In message , at 22:53:38 on Tue, 29
Apr 2014, webjunk remarked:
It continues to amaze me that such problems are not more widespread.
If you are bored, desperate or just feeling in need of cheering up then
stand and watch people use the barriers and Oyster.
At least 25% can't use the barrier; not holding the card on the reader
long enough, trying to get it read through layers of other things, in
proximity to other cards and best of all, obstructing the sensors.

Many blame the system. Mostly it's not knowing how to use a barrier.

Not that I want to join the bash-the-Norfolk-residents brigade, but
having spent several years observing seniors with smartcard-twirlies
boarding buses in another county, the failure rate was astonishing
(especially as these are very likely frequent users) when it came to
holding the card sufficiently close to the correct part of the validator
next to the bus driver.
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Roland Perry