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On Aug 24, 1:53 pm, John B wrote:
I'm missing the 'non-trivial' element, here... A bus ticket machine is a fairly simple off-the-shelf gadget. You're proposing bolting on a relatively huge amount of new electronics for very little gain, plus the additional costs of maintaining it and payingt for bandwidth and so on. From a technological point of view you're right, it is trivial, but logistically and economically, no it isn't. You don't need it anyway. Online top ups have an overnight delay, so they could just upload details of top-ups to be collected while the bus is in the depot at night. I presume they've looked at this and found it's more trouble than it's worth, or not something they could keep working reliably, or not compatible with current working practices, or some other non-technological issue. U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London |
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