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Old July 13th 08, 12:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John B John B is offline
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On 13 Jul, 02:30, chunky munky wrote:
The problem with the software was that any card touched on a bit of
Oyster kit was hotlisted and permenantly disabled. Anyone affected by
this will have to get a brand new card.

Yet another PFI cock up, albeit only one day, not long after a few
weeks ago when they were updating software on the LU Radios which they
didnt realise was causing them not to work, until alphabetically it
got to D for District! (At least the W&C would be pleased)


Please explain how public sector ownership would have prevented this;
you may use any data you have available on the relative customer
service, IT and project management competence of public sector and
private sector management.

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