London Banter - View Single Post - New fares from 2 January 2006

Colin Rosenstiel · **New fares from 2 January 2006 - pdf**

In article ,
(James Farrar) wrote:

Anyone not buying tickets often enough to bother to pay the £3
deposit,

If you're not bothered to pay a deposit you'll get back in as few as
two journeys, you deserve to pay through the nose.

learn how to use the card

Touch, beep.

and remember how much credit is on the card

Or bother to look at the screens on the gates.

Your lack of understanding is getting tiresome. Your circumstances are
different from those of the sort of users I'm thinking of.

People living in Network South East rarely need Oyster or cash fares
because Oyster isn't supported for most ticketing requirements because
of Travelcards. Therefore they will need singles only in exceptional
circumstances. This year that has required me to buy just two singles.
Next year I wouldn't recoup the £3 deposit on in those journeys.

I wouldn't go through gates with Oyster anything like often enough to
know *before* attempting a journey whether it has enough credit on it
maybe six months after I last used it.

As for tourists you have the reports here of a blue badge guide of the
problems many tourists have understanding transport systems in a foreign
language. Having had a similar converse experience in Warsaw I can
understand the problem.

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Colin Rosenstiel