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Old May 11th 08, 04:43 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Clive D. W. Feather Clive D. W. Feather is offline
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Default Boris - remove this absurd Oyster vs cash cost disparity

In article , Paul Corfield
writes
I can't think of a city anywhere that
makes it easy for people with loads of fresh, high denomination currency
to use standard public transport services.


Tokyo: at a metro station somewhere in the centre, the machine happily
accepted my approx-50-pound banknote and issued ticket and (approx 49
pounds 50) change.

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