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Poldie · September 29th 06, 08:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
At no point - in the information provided with my card, on the website,
nor during the phone call to the number provided in the email I
received when I paid for my second weekly travelcard - did I see a
reference to the word `validator`! I'll look out for them when I next
have some time to kill there. (I got a little bit of a funny look
this morning when I validated next week's travelcard but no-one said
anything.)

On the plus side, if you change your mind and don't wanna renew that
particular week, you can just not validate, and in 7 days the
transaction is void.

The advice I usually give to customers is to visit any ticket office at
any convenient time that it is open, and top up then. If you avoid
peak times, even popping in on a weekend if its convenient at all, you
can just renew it then. Or use the ticket machines, again out of the
peak hours.

Sometimes that might be handy. But i'm online now, and I might receive
a reminder to top up my travelcard (4 days before it expires), so it's
more convenient to quickly log onto the Oyster site and transfer some
funds than it is to remember to queue up some time before I actually
need to. I'm going to check and see if these rumours of
"validators" are true and that I can simply swipe my card without
opening a gate - that would seem to be the best solution.