On Feb 27, 8:00*pm, Michael Hoffman wrote:
Iain wrote:
Perhaps the on-platform validators need some kind of explanatory notice
nearby to let travellers know when they should and shouldn't be used?

Maybe they should just remove the maximum fare when you touch in at a
connected LU station. Then you wouldn't have to worry about it as much.

Explanatory text would be nice too, of course.


The variations are more complicated. At Stratford, if you get off the
DLR and touch the platform validator, is it classed as a touch out
from DLR or touch in from NR, and what happens when you touch out
again at the gate? I know that if I ignore the platform validator
when leaving the DLR, the gate counts as touching out and there's no
penalty.

But at Greenwich, where there are similar validators (for DLR
passengers an apparently identical situation to Stratford) there are
no gates so you have to use the platform one, which might have only
been for changing to/from NR.

(I need to do another thread about badly-placed DLR validators.)