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Old April 19th 07, 03:42 PM posted to uk.transport.london
David of Broadway David of Broadway is offline
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Default Grippers and Oysters

Barry Salter wrote:
David of Broadway wrote:

Seems like that practice opens the door to a good deal of fare
evasion. (Person A buys an Oyster-based Travelcard and gives or sells
the paper portion to person B. Now A and B can travel on the same
card at the same time!)


Except they can't, because the paper portion has NOT VALID FOR TRAVEL
printed on it, and wouldn't operate any ticket gates.


How many NLL stations have gates? (Although I suppose that will most
likely be changing in the near future.)
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David of Broadway
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