On 25 Jan, 15:16, Mizter T wrote:
At the moment passengers can reach the Hammersmith and City line
platforms without passing through a gate, and on those platforms are a
couple of standalone Oyster readers.

Why'd you use the validators? Being touched-in and on the platforms is
a consistent situation already, so you can either go out the gates
like an H&C passenger or continue your tube journey.

U

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On 25 Jan, 15:26, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 25 Jan, 15:16, Mizter T wrote:

At the moment passengers can reach the Hammersmith and City line
platforms without passing through a gate, and on those platforms are a
couple of standalone Oyster readers.

Why'd you use the validators? Being touched-in and on the platforms is
a consistent situation already, so you can either go out the gates
like an H&C passenger or continue your tube journey.

U


Of course, of course, good point - if the passenger wanted to touch-
out, they could do so by simply exiting the gates that exist on the
footbridge.

However I would argue that if a passenger was continuing their journey
on the H&C line a passenger in this situation might want to touch-in
anyway - if they were checked then the RPI might legitimately ask how
a passenger who entered this system at West Ruislip came to be on the
H&C platforms at Paddington without having passed through any other
set of gates (and at least some of the handheld Oyster readers used by
RPIs will provide this more detailed information). Plus swiping your
Oyster mid-journey is not something that causes problems in terms of
the overall journey, at least not in my experience.

Of course this is all a slightly murky discussion given the fact that
Oyster PAYG is not valid on Chiltern from West Ruislip to Paddington.