"David Walters" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:51:15 +0100, Ed Crowley
wrote:
Does any of this really matter? The real annoying issue is that when an
Oystercard is used, the barriers make a beep similar to when a child
ticket
is used ...

For people with poor vision this could be very helpful, especially
at staions with open barriers.

I haven't heard what a busy sation full of Oystercard users sounds
like but I'm sure it's easy to turn the beep off if it becomes a
problem.

It's more the fact that it looks (sounds?) like you're travelling on a child
ticket ...