Boltar wrote:
On 8 May, 17:12, John B wrote:

But that doesn't alter the original point, which is that it saves us
all a lot of time and money if people use Oyster; therefore people
who don't use Oyster cost us all a lot of time and money; therefore
it's fair to charge them more for the privilege.

********. If it applies to Oyster it applies to every other walk of
life that can use cash as a payment method.

Not true. Other walks of life tend to offer *only* card payments when they
can't justify the cost of handling cash. For example, some all-night petrol
stations offer only credit card payments at the pump. Westminster have
started to abolish cash payments at parking meters.

If you can't manage to keep a balance on your Oyster, then use auto top-up.
Being paranoid about direct debits as though TfL were some shady back-street
rip-off joint is frankly just silly. If you are capable of letting the
balance on your Oyster card run out, presumably you are also capable of
running out of cash. Who would you have blamed if you'd arrived at the tube
station and found you had just 90p in your pocket with which to buy a cash
ticket?
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