London Banter - View Single Post - London buses to offer contactless payment card option from tomorrow(12/12/12)

Roland Perry · December 19th 12, 09:34 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 18:43:53
on Tue, 18 Dec 2012, remarked:
"Finished your journey? Touch the purple validator to ensure
you are charged the correct fare".

Or perhaps more logical one to signify that you are continuing it.

Even better, just close the journey if a touch-back-in doesn't occur
within the OSI time period, if necessary the next time the card is used.
Don't see why that's hard.

Isn't the problem that people re-enter the station within the OSI period
because their visit is a brief one?

Yes that's the problem. And unless passengers are consciously trying to
use that as a loophole[1], then they should welcome a facility to break
the journey into separate legs in order to avoid the possibility of the
side effect/bug of a large excess charge.

The latter is more likely on a dog-leg or doubling back journey I'd have
thought, than one where the OSI was roughly on-route between the real
start and finish points.

[1] I've done that myself, in a manner of speaking. I took a trip from
Victoria (where my hotel was) to the Dome (to look at the cable-car
under construction), and on the way changed trains at Waterloo
using the opportunity of being on the main concourse to ask the ticket
office staff about the SWT ITSO card. (The knew nothing, but I digress).

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Roland Perry