On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:57:33 +0000, Dave Arquati
wrote:

Jason wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:54:22 +0000, Dave Arquati
wrote:


Secondly, why on earth are Carnets cheaper at £1.50/ticket than Oyster?
I thought TfL are meant to be encouraging Oyster. At the moment there is
no particular reason to persuade anyone to get prepay other than the
novelty - since Carnets are cheaper and prepay can't yet be used on buses?


Pre-pay is working on buses - although officially it's not supposed to
be. Some fares are being recorded correctly, while others were (still
are?) showing as 1p.

I thought TfL would have sorted this out by now; it probably wasn't much
of a problem before Prepay came out, but now people have Prepay cards a
number of them may well be unaware that it's not officially supposed to
work on the buses... and will get pleasantly surprised if they get
charged 1p, thus depriving TfL of 69p of revenue...

Personally I haven't had the guts to try my prepay on a bus yet. Does
anyone know why it does work properly on some buses (i.e. 70p charged)
but not on others?

I suspect this is to do with roll-out.

Do be aware that as pre-pay on buses has nor formally been launched
your pre-pay is not valid for travel. In the event of a revenue check,
expect trouble....


Rob.
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