In message , Dave Arquati
writes
Surely since they advertise that Oyster Prepay is an accepted form of
payment, and given that you have enough credit to pay, it's totally
their problem...?
I'd agree entirely with that. It's not yet occurred to me that I might
be expected to pay cash if climbing on a bus which turns out to have a
broken Oyster reader.

I was having a discussion along these lines with a friend yesterday,
who said that he was on a bus recently where someone got on and tried
to pay for a cash fare - with a £50 note. Unsurprisingly the driver
wouldn't accept it. Apparently the whole bus had to wait for a few
minutes whilst they wrangled about it (and I think the driver just gave
up after a while).

Do TfL advertise appropriate means to pay? (e.g. not £50?)
The latest Fares guide is as far as I'm aware, the first to mention
limits on what is tendered but I think it concerns itself with coins,
quoting the Coinage Act 1971 or something similar.
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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