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Old January 23rd 04, 10:39 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Oyster bug

"Nicholas F Hodder" wrote the following in:


The Evening Standard are today reporting a bug with the Oyster
card, but they don't say what the bug is. Can anyone shed any
light on this?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...ource=Evening%
20Standard


"Announcements are being made at stations telling passengers how to use
the cards in an effort to try to make them work."

That suggests to me it's probably something to do with pre-pay
deducting the maximum fare if passengers don't "touch the card on the
yellow readers at the start and end of your journey". I know that's not
a bug, that's just people using it incorrectly, but I am taking into
account the usual level of Evening Standard inaccuracy.

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