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Oyster readers turned off
Kat wrote:
In message , Dave Newt writes Leyton tube about 8pm Saturday night. Hope there weren't too many pre-pay people going through... Are you certain the readers were off? The gates can be set to open but wouldn't normally be powered down unless there's a fault. Absolutely. No lights and no reaction. (I tried briefly.) In fact, when I got out at South Woodford, I didn't understand why the machine's "View Oyster Usage" option didn't show that I had just come from Leyton. Later I remembered it was because the machines were off, so the entire journey didn't exist. For what it's worth, I have a season Oyster so didn't stop to question it. Then, as it happened, I forgot I was going out of my zone without pre-pay. When I got to South Woodford, I couldn't get out of course, so rather than even making me pay an extension, the 2 SAs kindly let me out for free (perhaps cos we both talked the same Oyster jargon :-), and I promised to go and put some pre-pay on to get back in later on. However, if I HAD had Pre-pay on the Oyster, what would have happened given that I had no entry recorded? Just an unresolved journey or a charge of how much on the pre-pay? If you had no Pre Pay and went out of Zone you'd have a debit of £1.00 showing. So it would assume I had started in Z1-3 (my season)? So if a Z6-D gate had been off, I would have only paid £1 to get out in Z4, since it would have assumed I came in in Z1-3? On the way back you'd need to put £2.00 for the cost of two extensions (assuming you have 1 - 2) Oh yeah, getting back would not be a problem - I mean the extension calculator didn't know where I got on in this case, so I am just wondering how it would guess where I got on (and what it would guess). |
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