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Old January 11th 05, 10:05 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Oyster Pre-Pay over-charge?

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:38:41 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:



That's not quite as easy as it sounds - the balance is on the card,
and in your hand. You would need to at least nominate a station to
collect it.


Have smartcard travel "ticketing" schemes been as poorly implemented
in other cities? I really don't think they could have done it any
worse. Has the Hong Kong scheme got as many shortcomings as Oyster?