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Nick Cooper · October 7th 05, 07:25 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:37:18 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:38:30 +0100, Laurence Payne
wrote:

Look at it this way. They COULD have announced "No more cash fares".

And if they had, they'd have had to improve the Oyster issuing
facilities, e.g. by providing issuing machines, else there'd be
massive queues at ticket offices.

But that would only be a short-term "problem." Once the vast majority
have Oysters, ticket-office custom will be a lot lower.

Instead, they copped out and introduced unreasonably high single
fares.

For those stupid enough not to use Oyster.
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