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Smartcard readers at stations in Hampshire/Dorset?
On 14 Dec, 17:39, Theo Markettos wrote: In uk.railway Andy wrote: I seem to recall seeing somewhere that one of the ideas is the virtual carnet. Buy 10 tickets for a journey, taken at irregular intevals, but only pay for 8. This is something that should be relatively simple to setup with smartcard ticketing. It would make sense to provide metro-area ticket across modes. *So you'd buy a DayRider which would be valid on local buses, and on trains (journeys like Southampton Central to Redbridge). *If you ended up at Poole on a train or Andover on a bus you've gone too far and aren't travelling with a valid ticket. *Just like you can travelcard to Watford Junction but not Milton Keynes. Er Watford Junction is outside the London zones so a Travelcard is not valid to travel there (a Travelcard plus boundary extension ticket would be valid though). A Travelcard issued *from* Watford Junction is valid for a single return journey from WJ into the zones - but then so is a Travelcard issued *from* Milton Keynes (I presume such things exist). I believe the Welsh Assembly is keen on an Oyster-alike for Cardiff and the Valleys, which would seem a sensible target area. It would also work for PAYG, as passengers should know that the ticket isn't valid outside the metro area. *But I don't know if you'd end up with a separate PAYG balance for each place, or if someone would implement a central 'bank of Oyster'. See Paul Corfield's post downthread - if things do ever get off the ground then the result will likely be a confusing mish-mash of different and incompatible systems in different parts of the country, none of which will offer any PAYG functionality. (I know Barclaycard have PayWave, but that doesn't replace the Oyster functionality because you really don't want PIN pads on ticket gates for the N% of transactions that get referred). And for the uninitiated N% of transactions would get referred not because they were deemed suspicions but simply because that's how Visa PayWave works - a PIN needs to be entered every now and then so as to assure the system that the card is not stolen. Another issue is that Visa PayWave is currently configured to only allow purchases below £10 to go through without a PIN. Any notion of there being a PIN pad on a gate is of course totally unworkable. |
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