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Neil Williams · October 8th 05, 04:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:36:35 GMT,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

Not if you get on the bus and find you are out of credit.

How is this different from getting on a bus and finding you are out of
money?

You can easily look how much money you have in your wallet.

Not that that's really an issue, though - the technology exists for
smartcard readers (contact and contactless) to be made for about a
tenner. I've seen other organisations sell them, so I'm surprised TfL
don't.

Do TfL allow an "overdraft" of one (bus?) journey, perhaps only on
registered cards so they wouldn't have trouble getting it back? If
not, it would be worth consideration. At least one of the pre-pay
mobile phone companies allows for one "free" call in a given period (a
couple of months I think) with no credit.

Neil

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