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Oyster and bus goes out of service
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:16:17 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote: On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:45:59 +0100, Colum Mylod wrote: I thought there was some clever system to avoid double charging peeps whose bus was pulled out from under them en route? Last Friday my journey on a 220 was cut short, caught another 10 mins later. Journey history shows 06/07/07 19:30 Entry £1.00 £10.60 19:07 Entry £1.00 £11.60 .... Was the bus already on a short trip when you boarded or were you curtailed once you had got on? If the latter then the driver should have waited to transfer you to the next bus or presented you with a transfer ticket... I hopped on in Hammersmith in a rush and didn't see the front of the bus. The driver made no mention there & then of curtailment. At the next stop he told people it was going 2 more stops. He was apparently already running late and chucked out before Shepherd's Bush (an odd place as normally they do that on Wood Lane). As he did, a 220 in front was just leaving the stop so it was a real sod job of timing. Waited 10 mins for a follow on 220. No-one got any chits or any comms to help with continuing. Some mutterings and shaking heads at the bus stop - such being how civilised people complain before they abandon buses. It looked to me the guy was new, green behind the ears, and had been badly held up on his way north. Way beyond legit driving time? In fact I think this whole run-short shows a major deficiency in the bus ticketing that is catered for in other countries: if I need one bus I pay £1 from prepaid. If I need 2, I pay £2. There should be a route-based system as bus changing is not normally a pleasure activity, and it would cater for buses breaking down or going out of service. I'd like to refer to the NL Strippenkaart system but of course they're trying to wipe that out and go OV-kaart which for buses could mean an Oyster situation for bus changes. Anyway tomorrow morn I'll bother the Oyster line to see what they say. The journey history of 2x220 boardings at 19:07 & 19:30 should be able to speak for themselves... -- Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com |
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