Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:04:40 on Tue, 8 Dec
2015, d remarked:
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.
There was talk, earlier, of tourists. Non-English speakers will find a
machine less daunting than a grumpy Tfl employee.
This is certainly true. And I also find it odd that certain people here
think the first time a tourist will ever have experienced anything so
new-fangled as a ticket machine is on arrival in London.
Most visitors to London are probably not from Outer Mongolia. And for the
rest, they probably have plenty of experience with ticket machines from
their own metro systems.
London is not a cradle of advanced wonders the rest of the world is yet to
fathom. It's a great city, but hardly presents unique challenges.
I'd worry more about a visitor from Burnley knowing how to operate the
space-age technology on the tube than someone from, say, Istanbul who'll be
used to more advanced systems.