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Roland Perry · November 25th 08, 07:41 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 18:55:16
on Mon, 24 Nov 2008, remarked:
But it's pretty well the only option if you live in the USA.

Can't you just obtain a card and top it up at Heathrow station?

Once you've got the hang of Oyster, probably. But explaining it to my
brother wasn't trivial and I've not started on my sister-in-law. They
don't really do public transport in Columbus.

The most confusing place for visitors to grapple with the UK's public
transport, ticketing especially, is probably Gatwick. Unless they ignore
the "local" trains and get Gatwick Express.

But the UK in general is much friendlier than most places I visit -
where ticket machines rarely take notes or credit cards, and you need
either coins (the last thing someone arriving in a country for the first
time has) or the local cash-on-smartcard (ditto).
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Roland Perry