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Neil Williams · October 6th 05, 07:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:42:45 +0100,
(Richard) wrote:

I think they should have that policy. A solution for infrequent
travellers could be the sort of flexible, disposable contactless card
I've used in Lisbon. There isn't a deposit, rather a charge, of 50
cents and it can be reused for a year. These cards *may* only be
capable of storing "normal" tickets bought from a machine or human,
the publicity is of course not very technical (and in Portuguese!).

This sounds a very good idea, especially for tourists etc. There is
another precedent in the Washington DC Farecards, where you buy a card
of a specific value and credit is deducted from it for each journey.
It's a magstripe technology, but I don't see why a non-contact
smartcard version shouldn't be feasible, if at a slightly greater
cost.

I would have thought that 50p on top for cash would be enough,

Agreed.

Neil

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