On May 7, 12:53 am, wrote:
On May 6, 2:39 pm, Boltar wrote:

On May 6, 12:47 pm, wrote:

The advantage of people paying by oyster isn't just reduced costs.
It's also faster journey times. It used to take forever for a long
queue to board a bus, when many people were paying cash. Now that
paying cash is significantly more expensive, hardly anyone does.

So make it exact money only then. Problem solved. Works in loads of
other places in the country. Besides which regular commuters will have
an oyster card anyway because its more convenient if you travel every
day so why nobble occasional commuters?

B2003

Exact money still quite a lot slower than oyster. People fiddle about
opening their wallet, a ticket has to be dispensed.

That happens anyway on the tube when people top up their oyster cards.
As for the buses yes it could slow things down a little but I think
its a fair trade off.

Also, if the rule were exact money only, then some people might find
that annoying as well, on occasions when they were caught short of
change...

Well there could always be a rule of exact money or more if they only
have a 2 pound coin for a 1 pound journey, The choice would then be
theres as to whether to travel or find a shop and get some change.

The problem with this country is its always the stick approach , never
the carrot. Instead of "we'll penalise you if you pay by cash" it
should be "if you use Oyster X times in a month you'll get a free 5
pound top-up" or something like that. But no , that would be far too
civilised.

B2003