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Old March 1st 17, 05:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Arthur Figgis Arthur Figgis is offline
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Default Oyster product pickup improvements

On 01/03/2017 09:17, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:44:37 on Wed, 1 Mar
2017, Neil Williams remarked:

It will work *exactly the same way* as Oyster as far as the
passenger is concerned. Put money on, auto-top-up if desired,
spend it by travelling.


If that's the case then "Oyster will become like Contactless" is
meaningless, if the passenger can't perceive a difference (other than
the slower gate-opening).


It's not meaningless, because the back-end is changing.


OK, so the change is one that's only perceived by TfL, whereas the
passenger will see no change? Is that what you think it means.


The passenger will presumably notice if they can use different types of
fare capping to at present, or new discount schemes/ticket products are
brought in using the extra capabilities which will be available.

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