Neil Williams writes:

On Sep 14, 1:19Â*pm, wrote:
Cards arn't suitable for everything - can you
imagine if people boarding a bus all wanted to pay by card?

With the new contactless cards taking a fraction of a second to
process, I rather hope they will. But a bus ticket is a much lower
value transaction.

My local bus company offers a (presumably ITSO) contactless smartcard
which can have either a season ticket or cash loaded onto it. These are
used in the same way as the OAP passes, the user places the wallet flat
on a plate next to the ticket printer and the machine beeps and the
driver's touchscreen flashes green to indicate acceptance.