Nicholas F Hodder wrote:
"Robin May" wrote in message
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"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.

I thought so too when I read "Announcements are being made at stations
telling passengers how to use the cards in an effort to try to make
them work" but then I read "Prestige, the firm that runs the Oyster
card, is recalling some of them to discover how they can rectify the
bug, staff have told the MP". If they have to recall some of the
cards, then it does not sound like a passenger education issue.

Since the company is Transys, not Prestige, you can draw your own
conclusions about the accuracy of the rest of the story.
--
Richard J.
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