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Old May 11th 08, 06:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Arthur Figgis Arthur Figgis is offline
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Default Boris - remove this absurd Oyster vs cash cost disparity

Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
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.


Is it true that the Japanese don't really go in for payment by card, and
happily carry around large amounts of cash instead?


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