In message , at 13:24:31 on
Sat, 17 May 2014, Paul Corfield remarked:
On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:24:27 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

I've just received a reminder about joining the trial (which I don't
qualify for as I'm too infrequent a user).

If they are still recruiting people for the trial, it seems to me that
rollout must be some way in the future.

A complete guess on my part but I suspect it's just an automatic
request generated off the back of you having had the combined Oyster /
Barclays thing which has recently been stopped.

I'm sure it is. But then we get into cockup vs conspiracy territory.

Are they by mistake inviting people into the trial, despite it being
about to end and therefore that participation is irrelevant?

The trial is quite clearly happening now

I know, because others of my acquaintance are on it.

and there seems to have been a slight increase in the volume of "it's
coming soon" for the contactless system.

But when? A Cambridge Guided Bus "late Summer", or something else?

I still expect the rail mode rollout to happen in June or July -
barring the discovery of some system nasties in the trial. Hopefully
TfL and their contractors have debugged the system sufficiently to
avoid this happening.

Let's compare notes early August.
--
Roland Perry