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Richard J.[_3_] · October 31st 13, 01:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Paul Corfield wrote on 31 October 2013 12:15:09 ...
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:14:19 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Recently my Freedom Pass has failed at some Oyster Readers (usually Underground ones)with an error 94.

The only thing that has changed is that I now have in my wallet a proximity debit card.

Would this cause problems?

Yes because TfL are almost certainly deploying new software to all
card reading devices (on rail modes) in preparation for launch of
contactless bank card acceptance and daily capping in 2014. There
will be "clash detection" in operation when someone presents two cards
within the read area of the target on the gate or validator. As the
reader cannot determine which card the holder wants to have read it
will reject both.

Even with the old software, I had problems when Barclaycard started
issuing RFID cards. Before then, I had no problems getting my Freedom
Pass read through a stack of several chip-and-pin cards. But with the
RFID Barclaycard included, I had frequent failures to read. I now have
the Freedom pass in a separate flap of the wallet which I open out when
using an Oyster reader.
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Richard J.
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