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Old February 17th 15, 12:23 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 Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:32:50PM +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
on Fri, 13 Feb 2015, remarked:
The failure mechanism would appear to be someone touching in, and
then touching out on a gate but failing to go through the gate. So
they are still "airside", and capable of catching a train somewhere.

This is such a fundamental fraud vector that whoever designed the
system to allow it (while penalising innocent passengers whose
platform was changed at the last minute) should be hung out to dry.

What do you suggest?

Landside validators to confirm you've left the platform.


Adding more complication and putting yet more of a burden on passengers
who already struggle to use the damned system correctly is not a useful
solution.

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