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Old February 17th 15, 12:19 PM posted to uk.transport.london
David Cantrell David Cantrell is offline
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Default Oyster charging for journeys that don't happen

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:58:40PM +0000, Barry Salter wrote:
On 14/02/2015 8:38 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
What a performance! Just because SWT was a driver short.

Yup...But TfL will still you that Oyster/Contactless are so much more
"convenient" for passengers than paper tickets...


To be fair they *are* more convenient if you assume that there are no
systematic errors. And this is a common assumption amongst employees of
companies that have complex customer-facing systems - it's far too easy
to think that it's the user's fault for doing something wrong when the
real problem is that the system is too complex for the user to have a
hope in hell of getting everything right.

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