On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:37:30 -0000, Stephen Richards
wrote:

I tried to use prepay on the bus the other day before I realised it wasn't
valid (of course there is nothing to say it is not valid on the busses
when you load up your Oyster at a ticket machine at a tube station). Of
course it didn't work, and the red light came on. The driver looked at
his screen, printed it out on a ticket and gave it to me, and waved me t
hrough. The ticket read something like:

***ERROR****
transaction failed
Travelcard valid throughout route
No wonder the driver thought it was a valid ticket!

My wife has been using her Pre-Pay on buses, and on the majority of
trips the validator has returned a red-light. The drivers just wave
her through and ignore about it!

Luckily she only ever travels about three or four stops and in two
years I've never seen revenue check done.


Cheers,

Jason.