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Old September 16th 14, 10:10 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 16/09/2014 10:09, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:27:52 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

Starts today, and featured on BBC TV local news.

Unhelpfully they show someone touching a reader and being told they've
been charged £1.35, that must be a bus, shirley?


Could be a discounted PAYG journey on rail. The bus fare was £1.35
two years ago and I don't think any CPC functionality was live back
then. [...]


It was - CPC payments went live on London buses on 13 December 2012.

(Discounts - Railcards etc - can't be associated with CPCs.)