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I bought a platform ticket yesterday. The ticket man was rather
surprised that this was what I wanted. (I'd arranged to meet a friend mid-commute to hand him some books.) I thought it would be easiest to ask a Real Human™ for one but wonder: Could I have bought it from the touch screen machine? (I wasn't going to faff about to find that the machine didn't do them) Would I have upset my Oyster if I'd tried to use it to open the barriers? It's a Bus Pass with PrePay. (I didn't try because I didn't want the Seek Assistance business.) Does anyone here know the answers? -- Helen D. Vecht: Edgware. |
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:49:19 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
I bought a platform ticket yesterday. The ticket man was rather surprised that this was what I wanted. (I'd arranged to meet a friend mid-commute to hand him some books.) I thought it would be easiest to ask a Real Human™ for one but wonder: Could I have bought it from the touch screen machine? (I wasn't going to faff about to find that the machine didn't do them) Don't think you can. Would I have upset my Oyster if I'd tried to use it to open the barriers? It's a Bus Pass with PrePay. (I didn't try because I didn't want the Seek Assistance business.) Yes, you would have ended up with an unresolved journey. Oyster can't deal with entering a station and then leaving that same station wihtout going anywhere. The station staff can't even cancel the soon to be unresolved journey until 2 hours after you touched in. David |
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"David Walters" wrote in message ... Yes, you would have ended up with an unresolved journey. Oyster can't deal with entering a station and then leaving that same station wihtout going anywhere. The station staff can't even cancel the soon to be unresolved journey until 2 hours after you touched in. The more I hear about Oyster, the more I hope they keep weekly tickets going. At least three times in the last 5 years I can remember having to come back out of Bounds Green Station after entering. Of course the good old weekly ticket doesn't mind where you go. Plus I still seem to see crowds of annoyed people thumping their wallets against the top of the barrier and getting nowhere. Anyone anything good to say about Oyster ? -- Edward Cowling - London - UK |
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"Edward Cowling" wrote the following
in: "David Walters" wrote in message ... Yes, you would have ended up with an unresolved journey. Oyster can't deal with entering a station and then leaving that same station wihtout going anywhere. The station staff can't even cancel the soon to be unresolved journey until 2 hours after you touched in. The more I hear about Oyster, the more I hope they keep weekly tickets going. At least three times in the last 5 years I can remember having to come back out of Bounds Green Station after entering. Of course the good old weekly ticket doesn't mind where you go. You have misunderstood, because an oyster card will allow you to enter and exit at the same station without charging you or creating any problems, provided the station was within the zones covered by the travelcard on it. Plus I still seem to see crowds of annoyed people thumping their wallets against the top of the barrier and getting nowhere. I've never seen anything like that! I have occasionally seen confused people trying to use paper tickets on the oyster readers, which obviously doesn't work. Anyone anything good to say about Oyster ? Yes, I find it extremely convenient. It's easier to get through with one hand holding something (just put your ticket holder on the yellow circle, no need to fiddle about taking a ticket out and putting it back in) and prepay has been very good for times when I've needed to travel outside the zones on my ticket. -- message by Robin May-Silk and his close friend, Robert Kilroy-Kotton "GIVE IN! IT'S TIME TO GO!" - The NHS offers a high standard of care. Would you take the office of relief?: http://robinmay.fotopic.net/p4600200.html |
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On 14 Jul 2004 13:00:44 GMT, Robin May
wrote: You have misunderstood, because an oyster card will allow you to enter and exit at the same station without charging you or creating any problems, provided the station was within the zones covered by the travelcard on it. I heart my oyster but I think that's not exactly true. One Fri lunchtime I breezed in at Chancery Lane only to encounter a "westbound not running" sign at the escalator; no info before that point and I was one of many who entered, read and did a u-turn. We all had to queue up at the manual gate for release since the O reader shone red lights at us and urged us to Seek Assistance. Similar sad tale at Hol Pk where the station staff explicitly told O holders to tread their weary way to the tix counter for cancellation. All of this on monthly tix. Shirley (SCMS) the big O could allow immediate exit after entering? -- New ant-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com |
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Colum Mylod typed
I heart my oyster but I think that's not exactly true. One Fri lunchtime I breezed in at Chancery Lane only to encounter a "westbound not running" sign at the escalator; no info before that point and I was one of many who entered, read and did a u-turn. We all had to queue up at the manual gate for release since the O reader shone red lights at us and urged us to Seek Assistance. I had a very similar experience when I touched my Oyster (PrePay) in at Burnt Oak to meet a chap writing on the whiteboard on the other side of the gateline. He was writing that there were no Northern Line services north of Colindale, so I did a U-Turn and touched out my Oyster, the barrier then told me to Seek Assistance. It took the chap a while to sort out my card; I think he had to add £1 to its balance to do this ;-) Similar sad tale at Hol Pk where the station staff explicitly told O holders to tread their weary way to the tix counter for cancellation. All of this on monthly tix. Shirley (SCMS) the big O could allow immediate exit after entering? So you'd think. I'm glad I waited and bought a paper platform ticket yesterday... -- Helen D. Vecht: Edgware. |
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Colum Mylod wrote in
: Shirley (SCMS) the big O could allow immediate exit after entering? I assume it's some kind of revenue protection thing along the lines of a paper ticket not working entry barriers at the same station twice within 15 minutes. That was obviously designed to stop people passing their ticket over the barrier to a friend waiting outside, so the problems with Oyster working properly on immediate exit at the entry station would seem to be of a similar nature. Iain |
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Anyone anything good to say about Oyster ? -- Edward Cowling - London - UK I think they're great (as the tiger says). As someone who only very occasionally finds myself using buses or The Tube, not having to worry about carrying cash (or the right change) or multiple tickets is really useful. I'm also very pleased to be able to bypass the Underground's ticket offices which are usually packed. |
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JB wrote:
Anyone anything good to say about Oyster ? -- Edward Cowling - London - UK I think they're great (as the tiger says). As someone who only very occasionally finds myself using buses or The Tube, not having to worry about carrying cash (or the right change) or multiple tickets is really useful. I'm also very pleased to be able to bypass the Underground's ticket offices which are usually packed. And so say all of us. With the added advantage that, it seems, many bus readers seem temporarily broken so if you wave your pre-pay at it, the driver is just as likely to just wave you straight on. |
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 at 12:56:13, Edward Cowling
wrote: "David Walters" wrote in message .. . The more I hear about Oyster, the more I hope they keep weekly tickets going. At least three times in the last 5 years I can remember having to come back out of Bounds Green Station after entering. Of course the good old weekly ticket doesn't mind where you go. This is true whether it is paper-based or Oyster-based. If you put any sort of Travelcard on your Oyster, it treats it exactly as an ordinary Travelcard. The difficulty arises with Pre-Pay, which is useful, but not yet as useful as it might be. -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 6 June 2004 |
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