On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:10:13 +0000, Clive Page
wrote:

I think there's a problem for all visitors, because they won't easily be
able to use all the stored value (or get their deposit back).

Indeed. In Hong Kong, when you leave, you can simply hand back your
Octopus (similar to Oyster) card at the ticket office, and be given
back your deposit in cash, along with any value that was left on the
card. I don't see why they can't do the same here.

- I keep getting stored value left which I can't use after my trip is
over.

The Oyster card brings London into line with these other
tourist-unfriendly transport systems. This doesn't seem to me to be
much of an advance.

And presumably they see no reason to fix it, because they'd lose out
on all the stored value that they'd otherwise get to just keep.