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Tom Anderson · November 25th 08, 10:57 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, wrote:

In article ,
(Tom Anderson) wrote:

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, solar penguin wrote:

Like I keep saying, Oyster is designed primarily for tube users,
and is inconvenient for the rest of us.

It's designed primarily for TfL network users. The way the system
works means that activation needs access to fixed hardware, so not
buses. Fixed hardware is attached to railway stations. If TfL
doesn't run the railway stations in your part of town, that's
hardly their fault.

Well, it is their fault actually, because the Oyster system is touted as
for all of London, not just the bits (somewhat geographically
unbalanced) served by the tube network. It's an old Ken bit of
shortsightedness and Sir Herbert Walker legacy.

It's pretty specifically a TfL product. TfL would like to embrace the
whole of London, and like to pretend they do, but in terms of fixed
infrastructure, they currently don't.

I'm assuming that when the ToCs join the big happy oyster family, they'll
also be able to handle activations. Is that the case? Can you pick up an
activation at one of the NR-only stations that accepts PAYG?

tom

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