Dave Arquati wrote:
Richard wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2006 11:08:44 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:
I understand that for bus trips only a positive cash balance is required
and the full fare is deducted on entry. Obviously there is not a
graduated system of fares by distance and no exit checking so this is
the only way the bus system can work. You can therefore have 10p on
your card and make a 80p charge thus leaving your card with a negative
balance of 70p.

I know you understand the system a lot better than most of us, Paul,
but I'm *sure* that I've seen a pre-pay Oyster rejected on the bus
because it only had 50p on it. It would make sense, wouldn't it, to
require = 80p?

I've definitely been rejected by a bus for being too cheap (i.e. having
less than 80p credit).


The other night I thought I was warning bleeped on a bus. It was very
crowded and the driver said nothing, and I assumed that I might find a
negative credit.

(I had actually thought I was beyond capping already, but then realised
that my first journey must have been before 0930, making that a short
bus ride costing £1.30.)

However, when I next topped up there was +20p on it. So does that mean
the driver should have kicked me off after I was rejected for only
having 20p? Or did I maybe have £1, before the bus, in which case I
was mistaken about the warning, or there was some other kind of warning
that I was being left with 20p?

I had no chance of seeing any message on the thing, barely being able
to reach it, but I thought it was a warning sort of noise.