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[email protected] · December 8th 15, 03:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 11:59:48 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:00:37 on Tue, 8 Dec
2015, d remarked:

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

And of course there are never queues at ticket machines with confused people
trying to use them are there.

There are some queues, but buying an Oyster from a machine is simplicity
itself. Even you could manage it.

Simpler than asking someone for an Oyster? Short of the machine being psychic
and knowing what you want as soon as you get there I doubt it.

a form to fill in. On the machines it's a very simple couple of button

Why did you have to fill a form in for an Oyster?

Originally they all had to be registered.

I never registered any of mine.

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Spud