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Old June 6th 08, 08:44 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default "OnePulse" cards and Oyster readers

On Jun 3, 7:09 pm, wrote:
Alighting at South Bermondsey this evening I was greeted by a group[1]
of ticket inspectors complete with those hand-held Oyster readers.. On
extracting my Barclaycard/Oyster OnePulse card from my wallet the
inspector grunted "Oh, it's one of those" and waved me on.
Are the handheld readers somehow incompatible with these cards then?
Or is it just a ticket inspector who's faced with something slightly
different and doesn't think it's quite worth the effort...?

-cj

[1] Is there a collective noun for grippers/ticket inspectors?


I was gripped on a bus recently. The gripper scanned my card in the
same way as a normal Oystercard without any problem.

I used to have a problem with the first Oystercard I got - I was a
fairly early adopter. It would work fine on the station gates and the
driver's machine on buses, but never registered with the hand-held
machines the grippers use. I ended up replacing it after a discussion
with an inspector who advised me to get a new one, as the next person
who checked it may not "let me off", as he did.