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Old December 16th 03, 10:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Jim Brown Jim Brown is offline
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Default Oystercard - not quite as useful as we were led to believe

(Neil Williams) wrote in message ...
On 15 Dec 2003 01:21:14 -0800,
(Boltar) wrote:

So someone please tell me , apart from being able to go through the gates
ever so slightly quicker , what use are these things exactly?


I think the "killer app" is pre-pay and direct debit. For any other
kind of ticket, the benefits are very minor.

Neil


I think the killer app will be recharging your ticket on the internet.
I reckon most office workers in the centre of town will be using this
method.

Jim