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Arthur Figgis · February 28th 17, 05:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 28/02/2017 09:56, d wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:45:53 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:38:56 on Tue, 28 Feb
2017, d remarked:
My understanding is that current Oyster cards will be dealt with as now,
newly issued Oyster cards will be contactless style.

Err, Oyster have been contactless since they were introduced.

I read the comment as meaning the "new" Oyster card will be in effect a
contactless pre-paid credit card with zero credit loaded, but an
arrangement to auto-topup from a bank account by the exact amount of any
journeys made.

I wonder if one will be able to use it in shops?

Probably not, for all the TfL-not-being-a-bank reasons that Oyster can't
be used in shops.

If not there seems to be
scarcely any difference between that and a current auto top up.

It will allow the processing to be done in the back-office, so cleverer
stuff can be done with account-based fare capping, railcards, discounts etc.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK