London Banter - View Single Post - Bus tickets

Roland Perry · December 8th 15, 09:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:21:55 on Tue, 8 Dec
2015, d remarked:
now the blonde buffoon has closed all the ticket offices it'll make it
harder for people to buy Oyster cards.

It's actually vastly easier now, because they can be bought from the
ticket machines.

How is using the convoluted menus on a ticket machine "vastly easier" than
going to a window and saying "Can I have an Oyster please?" ? Or if you're
a tourist and don't have a clue , well, good luck.

To get one from a window you had to queue, and when I got mine there was
a form to fill in. On the machines it's a very simple couple of button
presses, and at the places tourists might be arriving (like St Pancras)
the queues for the ticket machines are much shorter now than for the
windows in the past.
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Roland Perry