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Crossrail transition
In message , at 06:13:44 on Wed, 25 Oct
2017, Clank remarked: On 24.10.2017 11:03 PM, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:07:00 on Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Clank remarked: If HEX had wanted smartcards it would have introduced them by now as it's a simple self contained operation. I expect it is far keener to get TfL's contactless card system installed off the back of Oyster acceptance. Being able to use bank cards will likely appeal to a large proportion of their regular users. I wonder how many foreign-issued bank cards will work with the contactless system? If anything the UK is backward compared to the rest of the world on contactless acceptance, I was more concerned about contactless issuing, and the risks of accepting foreign cards whose creditworthiness status can't be determined in real time. No ticket purchase and no queues will appeal to business travellers. As a much travelled businessman (in general terms) I can assure you that the lack of a paper receipt/ticket to attach to my expenses claim is a huge disadvantage. Other systems solve this problem easily, as you've been told before. NS's system for Chipkaart produces a very nice online expenses claim receipt (which is specifically valid for Dutch tax purposes in the case of nominal/registered cards,) which is far more convenient than toting around bits of paper - the same can be done for contractless cards. No doubt I'd have to set up accounts [remember to, and have time to] for every balkanised transport operator I used on a trip. I see no reason why a printout from the TfL website would be unacceptable for exes purposes That's one of the Balkanised systems one would need to register with. You really use that word far too often, and completely inappropriately*. To the best of my knowledge there has never been a UN World Transit Operator that was once responsible for all the planet's metro systems but has sadly fragmented into warring factions. It's the payment methods which are Balkanised - currently in London (if you ignore outboundary Travelcards bought with C&P) a war between cash, Contactless Bank Cards, Oyster, and ITSO[1]. Even without the latter two, I have several Contactless Bank Cards, and even TfL is minded to remind us to use the same one when touching out as touching in. And then, when I'm trying to tot up the expenditure, I've have to remember which card statements to rummage through for the data. [1] Where I would need two different ones depending of whether I travelled Via Liverpool St or Kings Cross. (Personally I find it not remotely frustrating - possibly partly because I'm not so tight I try to put every 50 euro cent bus journey on expenses Nor do I. Once I had a policy of ignoring all travel costs to clients in London, but that was when I lived inside the M25, and my daily rate in that industry was far higher than my current one in a different industry. Nowadays, the fare from where I live near Cambridge to a client in London can easily be £50 in the peak. - and indeed collecting transit cards from around the world is something of a guilty pleasure of mine. I just collect UK ones at the moment. Currently have 12 in my wallet, if you include the Senior Railcard. -- Roland Perry |
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