London Banter - View Single Post - Can't update Oyster card with cash any more

[email protected] · August 11th 20, 09:54 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:09:39 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 07:48:39 on Tue, 11 Aug
2020, remarked:

TfL's website lists 69 tube stations which it says still accept cash,
plus DLR and Overground.

Oyster cards can be bought and topped up at newsagents and other shops
all over the TfL area. I doubt they all refuse cash either.

Common sense says that the OP cannot be correct because it would be
impossible for anyone without a bank account to use London's buses.

Plenty of shops and cafes are not accepting cash or making it very
difficult
to pay with it by making self serve machines card only and having to queue
for
the single assistant at the till, so what makes you think TfL give a damn?

Because TfL are required by the politicians to give a damn, and consider
the edge cases and goat herders.

It was politicians (I'm not sure whether it was Sadiq Squirt or Number 10)
that told them to stop accepting cash in imost of their stations in the first
place according to the member of staff I spoke to.

Is that all forms of cash, or only over-the-counter cash? Specifically,
have they disabled the coinslots and note-readers on the TVMs.

What counters? Certainly the coinslots on the ticket machines I saw were
closed and the "Pay other amount" option in the on screen menu had gone.