London Banter - View Single Post - Oyster: still an unreliable rip-off

[email protected] · April 23rd 14, 02:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 04:11:24PM -0500,
wrote:

Also, how do you keep an eye on your charges if you use the older
gates that reveal no useful information?

I have never seen any useful information displayed at a gate other than
variations on the theme of "your ticket didn't work, try again".

Oh, there are lots of other things displayed. But unless I stop and look
carefully while people queue up behind me, and then pull my phone out,
navigate to the right page on TfL's website, and carefully compare the
two - the "information" isn't useful information at all.

It tells you the fare deducted and the new card balance if it's not one of
the old gates.

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Colin Rosenstiel