Thread: Oyster prepay on bus with faulty card reader
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Old June 25th 04, 09:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Helen Deborah Vecht Helen Deborah Vecht is offline
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Default Oyster prepay on bus with faulty card reader
Annabel Smyth typed


How would the driver know you had pre-Pay on your card rather than a bus
pass or Travelcard, if his reader was faulty so he had no way of
telling?

I don't think he *can* know. I have a Bus Pass with some Pre-Pay. The
thought has occurred to me that when I flash my Oyster + Photocard at a
driver (and the Oyster reader shows a red light), the driver has no way
of knowing whether there is *anything at all* on my Oyster...

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