London Banter - View Single Post - Can't update Oyster card with cash any more

Graeme Wall · August 11th 20, 01:11 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 11/08/2020 12:43, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:52:08 +0100
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 11/08/2020 10:54, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:24:40 +0100
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 11/08/2020 08:48, wrote:
It was politicians (I'm not sure whether it was Sadiq Squirt or Number 10)
that told them to stop accepting cash in imost of their stations in the
first

place according to the member of staff I spoke to.

Cash is a known vector in the transmission of various diseases.

So is anything touched by people though copper coins tend to kill most
pathogens. I dread to think what is on the keypad button of card readers.

When did you last see a copper coin?

Last time I handled a 2p piece which was only recently. And before you turn
your pedant mode to up 11 I know its copper plated but the germs don't know
that.

How many TfL ticket machines still accept 2p pieces?

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Graeme Wall
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