In message , at 21:05:48 on Sun, 27 Feb
2011, tim.... remarked:

Yes, because they typically won't have a paywave card. They can't use
their parent's paywave card because the parent is using that. (I don't
accept your argument that a parent will get

I didn't say get, I assumed that they will have.

Do you not?

I've a credit card and a debit card in my wallet and I don't suppose that I
am in the minority

At the moment I've only got one paywave card (and that's combined with
Oyster which has, erm, potentially unresolved issues on how the gate
will resolve which half I'm trying to use...)

I'm not in the business of handing my children out spare credit cards in
this situation. It's a weakness of the business model.

What I *would* be prepared to do (as a tourist arriving in London) is
buy a set of Oyster cards from a vending machine. If there isn't a Child
Oyster, then that's another business model weakness.

Actually, that begs the question of whether a child with a paywave would
be charged less than an adult [how would the gate know?] (back to the
"twice the price" issue again).
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Roland Perry