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Old February 3rd 09, 04:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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On 3 Feb, 16:56, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:

The key would have been that the reader on a bus doesn't currently
know where the bus is, so it wouldn't give any journey information.- Hide quoted text -


The reader will think it is at the fare stage displayed on the
driver's Wayfarer machine.
However, the accuracy of this is dependent on the driver manually
updating the fare stage.


I'm not sure of how important this is now we have flat fares.


The boarding stop was listed on Oystercard paper statements originally.


Really? Most interesting. The actual boarding stop or the last
'principal' bus stop (or beginning of the most recent fare stage)?