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Old February 2nd 10, 11:35 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport,uk.railway
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Default Conflict of Oyster Cards

On 1 Feb, 20:50, Matthew Geier
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:47:49 +0000, wrote:
That or re-usable tokens (about the size of a gbp2 coin) like used in
Singapore?


Neil


Singapore still uses tokens?


Nope - 100% smart card. There are vending machines that take the 'single
trip' cards back and refund the card deposit.


I wonder what proportion of those cards are surrendered.

Overall, Singapore is a small and disciplined country (really a city
state)...