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[email protected] · November 24th 04, 12:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Steve) wrote:

I would like to congratulate Ken on bringing in Oystercard Prepay, not
only do I get my bus journeys to work for only 70p
a time, but I also get about one 1 in 3 as free journeys due to the
reader on the bus as you enter by the driver being out
of order.

What I would like to ask any of you erstwhile readers is, what would
hapeen if an inspector got on and my card showed that I hadn't made a
transaction to pay for that journey? Would I be expected to pay in cash
(no doubt at full rate of £1) and if I didn't have the money, then
surely I should be able to travel for free, besides, ghaving my card
with me is intention to pay and it's not my fault that the reader is
broken.

There's been quite a few buses I've been on in the last fortnight where
the reader's been knackered.

Roger