London Banter - View Single Post - Where do you "touch in" at DLR Blackwall?

Dave Arquati · July 6th 04, 04:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Colum Mylod wrote:
On 6 Jul 2004 08:06:07 -0700, (Paul Weaver) wrote:

Colum Mylod wrote in message . ..

so it knew I had entered secretly without a 'touch' (monthly Z12 so I
was street legal)

So did you get charged more (single, 1-D)?

No, to my complete surprise! The non-existent entry to NHill exit was
listed at the ticket machine as a valid (nowhere) dash Notting Hill
Gate journey, lined up to match the other journeys NHill - Canary
Wharf and White City - Chancery Lane (I do get about..) No surcharge,
no attempt to grab the static 40p left on the pre-paid slot.

I expected a red bulb on exit and having to explain to the staff what
happened but the gate whirled open and let me escape. Z12 monthly as I
said so it was a valid exit, but I could have come in anywhere on the
system outside Z2 for all it knew.

As the other poster Dave said, there might have been a yellow pad on
ground level at Blackwall. I was expecting some sort of barrier at
Bank.

The one at Heron Quays didn't obviously strike my eye when I got there,
I had to look around a bit first. Probably the same problem at Blackwall.

They have installed continuation-of-journey validators at Bank but when
I passed through, they weren't active. I'm not entirely sure why they're
necessary; the system coped perfectly well with my journey (Crossharbour
- Gloucester Road via Bank/Monument).

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London