On 10/10/2014 12:10, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 11:08:58 on Fri, 10 Oct
2014, Mizter T remarked:

On 10/10/2014 10:11, Roland Perry wrote:
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And if you got a new Barclays OnePulse card (even a routine replacement)
that had a different Oyster Card number, so you had to ring them up to
transfer the balance and the auto-topup, but I don't think you had to
re-active the auto-topup. All ancient history now of course.

That would have required Barclaycard to send out some replacement
cards with auto top-up enabled, and others without it, to the correct
customers - given how they kept their distance from the Oyster side of
things, I wonder if that was really the case, or whether you perhaps
misremember?

It's possible I had to re-enable auto-topup, now you mention it. I think
I specified the "wrong" gateline at the KGX/StP concourse and thus
ensued a merry dance.

I was never very impressed with the OnePulse card - functionally, it
was just a plastic card that co-hosted two quite separate things, a
contactless credit card and an Oyster card. (Technically it was a bit
more than that, as the EMV contactless bit had to play nice with the
Oyster/Mifare bit.)

Reduces card-bloat.

Though possibly more hassle than it was worth?!


There were plans for London Borough library cards with integrated
Oyster cards - and perhaps few might have actually been issued, I'm
not sure - but again (according to the documentation I saw for them)
it was basically a plastic card hosting two quite separate functions -
library borrower details with a barcode printed on the front, with
Oyster/Mifare innards - and if you had any problems with the Oyster
bit you had to deal with TfL.

These days most Boroughs (and councils elsewhere) don't manage to
combine their library cards and leisure cards.

Nottingham does

http://www.citycardnottingham.co.uk/...-citycard.html

and they've had Smartcards on the buses for a decade. Oddly enough I
think the Nottingham Building Society was the first to introduce online
banking (on Prestel, it's that long ago).

City of the future!

To be fair, some Boroughs in London manage it, for example Hillingdon
and Redbridge:

http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/hillingdonfirst

http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/leisure_and_libraries/leisure/the_redbridge_card.aspx

The Hillingdon First card also provides residents with preferential
parking rates at on-street bays and council car parks.