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Oyster cards on buses
Richard wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:57:15 GMT, "Graham J" wrote: I'm just looking at adding an auto top up on my PAYG, but it asks for which station do I want to use. As I don't have a tube near me, I will only be using buses. Should I just put a default station e.g. Waterloo? Except that you can't at Waterloo. There's nothing on the web site to explain why to I emailed TfL who replied to say that it was to do with the Waterloo and City closure and some ongoing work on the gates, IIRC. Irrelevant in your case, but you did mention Waterloo! Your Oyster card needs to be tweaked so that it is recognised as having auto top-up enabled. [...[ I decided that Auto Top-Up was so useful that I'd plan ahead a bit and wait until I needed the underground. I didn't expect the walk to Southwark, but did find two nice pubs and a street of restaurants (at Southwark) along the way so it wasn't a waste of time... I guess you walked down the The Cut. There is some lovely dining to be had down there at say the Anchor and Hope or one of the restaurants. There's a couple of really nice pubs just north of there on some great old-London-Town side streets - the Kings Arms on Roupell Street and the White Hart on Cornwall Road. [...] I seem to remember that TfL belatedly realised this is a bit of a stopper and that you can now order Oyster cards online with the auto top-up already enabled. So it might be easiest to just get a new one. Unless of course I was just dreaming that bit. I ordered mine around the time that the rules changed and you could top-up on buses. The help pages and the normal text were inconsistent so I emailed - again - and was told that I'd still have to visit a station. I *think* this was incorrect advice. Perhaps if you ask now, they've got their story straight. Have you got an approxomate date for that at all? I may, if I'm stupid enough, attempt to write some kind of Oyster FAQ and if so it'd be useful to have a timeline of Oyster developments to hand. |
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Oyster cards on buses
On 15 Aug 2006 14:00:40 -0700, "Mizter T" wrote:
Richard wrote: I decided that Auto Top-Up was so useful that I'd plan ahead a bit and wait until I needed the underground. I didn't expect the walk to Southwark, but did find two nice pubs and a street of restaurants (at Southwark) along the way so it wasn't a waste of time... I guess you walked down the The Cut. There is some lovely dining to be had down there at say the Anchor and Hope or one of the restaurants. There's a couple of really nice pubs just north of there on some great old-London-Town side streets - the Kings Arms on Roupell Street and the White Hart on Cornwall Road. That's it... the White Hart. Mmmmmmmm... Those streets are fascinating. I suppose there were more streets like that before WW2 and the South Bank Centre construction. And there was a brewery on the river, I think? I ordered mine around the time that the rules changed and you could top-up on buses. The help pages and the normal text were inconsistent so I emailed - again - and was told that I'd still have to visit a station. I *think* this was incorrect advice. Perhaps if you ask now, they've got their story straight. Have you got an approxomate date for that at all? I may, if I'm stupid enough, attempt to write some kind of Oyster FAQ and if so it'd be useful to have a timeline of Oyster developments to hand. I asked the question about Waterloo on 5/7/06, got the reply that day and picked up the Auto Top-Up from Southwark on 9/7/06. The email that I got to confirm the upload also failed to mention that auto top-up works on buses and at tram stops, but by then I think it did, for a few days. So let's say July 2006. I tried to find you a press release at tfl.gov.uk, but no luck. Good luck with the FAQ! Richard. |
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