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traveller · May 28th 07, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tim.....

"traveller" wrote in message
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tim..... Wrote:
"traveller" wrote in message
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I got on the bus because i didn't hear the 'reject' sound, it's an
easy
mistake to make. There was a scrum of people crowding onto the bus,
you
have a split second to swipe your card before the person behind you
swipes theirs-

This is a different bus to the one that I last got on.

On that you stand in front of the pad and the person
behind has no chance to touch it with their card until
you get out of the way. It's your choice to do that in
'a second', not theirs.

tim

If you think that everyone queues up, patiently waiting to touch their
card against the reader, you've obviously never travelled on a London
bus.

Why is it obvious (and I can assure you it is false)

I didn't say that everyone qued up patiently. I said that
whether the next person pushes in front of you is
entirely up to you.

If you have a PAYG card, it is in your interest to make
sure that they don't. Not doing so is not an excuse for
missing the 'fail' beep.

tim

What you completely fail to acknowledge is that the driver also has a responsibility to alert the passenger to the fact that their card has not registered. Some do and some don't. I suspect that the driver didn't do it in this case because, like me, he didn't hear the machine beep twice in the scrum of passengers attempting to board the bus.