"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:43:54 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

I mourn the demise of the conductor

I don't. Having a conductor means they have to move around the bus,
and that means crush-loading isn't possible, and you can't stand just
because you want to because you're only going two stops.

Off-bus ticketing is the answer, though those TfL machines are of a
very poor design; counterintuitive and unreliable. Oyster will
certainly help matters, though it'd be good to push the Saver 6 a bit
harder as well.



And those TFL machines don't accept notes