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Old December 15th 03, 06:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Robert Woolley Robert Woolley is offline
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Default Oystercard - not quite as useful as we were led to believe

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:01:13 -0000, "Dave Liney"
wrote:


"Robin Mayes" wrote in message
. ..

It's actually down to the private contractors unable to meet the target
dates.


Or to look at it another way LU launching a system that wasn't ready and
setting unobtainable target dates for Pre-Pay.



Err, no.


Transys were required to have a working system some 15 months ago.
They haven't done this.

New target dates have been set.


Oyster is being provided under a PFI. You remember them? That's when
super-whizzo private sector management delivers a project on time and
on budget....



Rob.
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