On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:22:36 -0000, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

This doesn't sound terribly reassuring - the average traveller who arrives
at an unfamiliar station is likely to look at the machines, see Oyster is
unavailable because there's no pad and then will not want to waste time
queueing up at the ticket office since there's nothing obvious saying you
can get it there either.

That is one thing I don't get about Oyster. As a completely new
system, it surprises me that it wasn't designed to be 100% automated
from day 1 and used as an excuse to get rid of ticket offices, not
actually increased their use by creating a load of new transactions
that can only be done at one.

Neil

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