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Old May 9th 16, 05:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Arthur Figgis Arthur Figgis is offline
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On 09/05/2016 17:45, Paul Corfield wrote:

The crucial issue is whether the 3 caps are hard wired into the card
and system design or if there is flexibility to add more caps within
the system.


Isn't part of the point of the new back office system for contactless
that it can be told to do more and cleverer stuff?

If there is flexibility then yes, broadly, an hourly cap
works *provided* you don't care about whether people can make a return
journey for a single fare within 1 hour.


That has long been possible on Tramlink (within 90 minutes, maybe?).

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