On 3 Feb, 16:03, "Andrew Heenan" wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote ...

If I ran the buses, you'd be expected to touch in AND out on them too -
much
better info for service planning.
Don't think that would work remotely well in London whatsoever.

Probably too late now - but if it had been the rule from day 1, and there'd
have been the risk of overpaying if you didn't touch out (maybe with a point
at bus stops, like at Docklands stations), then it would have been "That's
how they work; live with it".

If the touch-out reader was on the bus, then I'd say many people would
touch-out as soon as they could whenever it was activated so they paid
the lowest fare. Dishonest maybe, but hardly difficult to envisage.
Apart from that there'd be the general fuss factor of having to touch-
out on leaving the bus - this would inevitably slow things up as
people touched-out on exit. If you had readers at bus stops you'd then
be talking about an *enormous* deployment of kit - totally
unpractical, basically undoable.


Would have been far, far more sensible.

Why?