On Jul 21, 5:48 pm, Paul Terry wrote:

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Mizter T writes

Incidentally I recall being rather unimpressed at the information
provided at Wimbledon when Oyster first arrived, though eventually
posters were displayed which were sort-of helpful. I'm not sure of
what the situation is like there now

Last time I was there, the need to touch out at the ticket gates was
clearly signed, but a further degree of confusion was added by a notice
not to use the yellow reader adjacent to the manual gate when leaving
the station!

OK, well I can say things have changed since you were there - sometime last
year I think the manual side gates were replaced with the "WAGs", that is
the wide-aisle gates (as opposed to ticket checks being done by Coleen
Rooney, Abigail Clancy et al [1]).

I assume that the standalone reader next to the manual gate caused some sort
of issue here because it was directionally ambiguous - i.e. it couldn't tell
whether a passenger was entering or leaving the system. Touching an Oyster
on a gate meanwhile isn't ambiguous at all - it's a definitive indicator of
either an entry or an exit.

So that's one issue less to contend with at least!

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[1] I did need to google for this, BTW!