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Arthur Figgis · October 6th 05, 08:13 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:04:39 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:

This sounds a very good idea, especially for tourists etc. There is
another precedent in the Washington DC Farecards, where you buy a card
of a specific value and credit is deducted from it for each journey.
It's a magstripe technology, but I don't see why a non-contact
smartcard version shouldn't be feasible, if at a slightly greater
cost.

Kuala Lumpur did that when I went. You got the final trip cheap if
there wasn't enough credit remaining on the throw-away card. Of
course, the two different metros in KL didn't accept each other's
tickets :-) (though I think that's been changed now)
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK