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(Richard J.) wrote:

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(Matthew Dickinson) wrote:

From this April it should be possible to pick up online Oyster
purchases within 30 minutes, and without having to nominate a
particular station. It will also be possible to pick up purchases on
buses.

TfL are also planning to introduce an Oyster app to complement this
improvement.

Details are at:


https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reque...ttach/3/Issue%
2095%20Redacted.pdf

Hooray! The current rules are an utter pain for infrequent
out-of-London users like me. I got caught out by the evening
deadline too once, topping up for a planned journey the next day.
Living in Cambridge I can't even be sure where I'll start an Oyster
journey.

If you used Auto Top-up, you wouldn't have that problem.

I don't use Oyster enough to justify lending TfL so much money.

But if "the current rules are an utter pain", there must be some
value in a scheme which avoids the pain. So how much interest
would you lose by lending TfL £20? Isn't it worth it to avoid the
utter pain?

what pain is that

going up to a machine and adding 5 pounds at the time that is
convenient

You're not familiar with the queues at machines at some stations? The only
times that are convenient are the times when one is passing through the
station.

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Colin Rosenstiel