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[email protected] · November 14th 14, 05:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Richard) wrote:

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:12:03 -0500,
wrote:

In article ,
(Matthew Dickinson) wrote:

TfL buses work fine. The ETM flashes up ITSO card. I haven't tried
Tramlink yet.

Curious. My National Bus Concession card didn't work this week. I tried
it on 3 buses too.

A card I saw yesterday showed "ITSO card" and something like "Show to
driver" with an error beep. So it's clearly on the way. I haven't
seen any announcement yet.

This was on a 507 in the usual configuration, air-conditioning on and
windows open. But that's another rant...

I wrote to Caroline Pidegon and got this intriguing reply which I thought
would interest the team he

"Thanks for forwarding this on to us. I have looked into the matter and can
confirm that English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) passes
cannot currently be read electronically by our buses.

Passengers with an ENCTS issued by a council outside London can still use it
on our buses by showing it to the driver.

This is because of a deficiency in the ITSO technology. At present, it is
not compatible with buses which start with some letters (routes prefixed or
suffixed with _U_ being a particular problem, e.g. U1). Those bus routes
would not therefore be recognised by the ITSO system.

We are working with ITSO to resolve this problem effectively.

In the meantime, as noted above, passengers should be able to board the bus
by showing the driver the card."

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Colin Rosenstiel