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![]() "Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message ... In article , james.s (James Farrar) wrote: For most tourists touring central London this is not an issue. Hmm, Greenwich Richmond (& Ham House) Hampton Court Crystal Palace Hampstead Heath Hampton Court is probably the only significant tourist attraction of the latter four. Greenwich is accessible by DLR. When will Oyster capping come in for Hampton Court anyway? One would hope that when SWT introduce Oyster fares it will be possible to touch-in/out at the obvious stations over the border. Not to do so would be stupid IMHO tim |
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They do not, but you will have to reactivate them if you do not use one
for 2 years. "The money on your Oyster card never expires - it stays there until you use it. However, if your card is not used for 2 years, you will have to reactivate it or claim back any unused cash by calling the Oyster helpline on 0845 330 9876. " http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tick...user-guide.pdf asdf wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:18:05 -0000, tim..... wrote: The cash on an Oyster card doesn't expire, strip cards usually do (I've no idea about the dutch ones). Oyster cards expire if you don't use them for 2 years. |
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Ian Jelf wrote:
In message , tim..... writes Hampton Court is probably the only significant tourist attraction of the latter four. Greenwich is accessible by DLR. But is the punter going to know that. They'll look at the map, see that NR is much quicker and go that way. And then they will find out that their ticket isn't valid Actually what happens is that they see loads of publicity for boat trips and go that way or else they look at the Tube Map and find access *only* via the Jubilee and DLR. Actually, I've lived in London ten years and last year when I was in Charing Cross and needed to go to Greenwich, I used the tube/DLR (and yes it took ages), without even thinking of taking the train as being an option. I wouldn't make that mistake again, mind you. |
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![]() sweek wrote: I guess I'm part of that lucky elite group too! Living in London, use my Oyster almost daily, and haven't had any problems at all. I love that I just don't have to worry about buying tickets or queueing at all with auto top-up on it. I don't know of any friends that have had problems either. Are you sure it might not just be you who's in the minority here, It could be. I have a very bad track record with ANY technology from after the early-to-mid-nineties. Anything more modern modern that can crash, fail, or break down usually will when I start using it! I can't be in the minority _every_ time that happens! and are you sure you haven't just walked through gates even though you got an error beep or anything? What gates? I only ever used it on buses. And I don't travel on them very often, which is why I'd hardly used it. Anyway, one day it just stopped working. It didn't respond at all to the readers on the buses. It didn't even respond to the reader in the newsagent when I took it back to complain. I couldn't prove there should still be five quid on there, because the readers wouldn't even acknowledge there was a card there, never mind how much money was on it. And I couldn't even get a refund on my deposit, because the newsagent claimed the damage must've been my fault! Now maybe you're saying there's something special and different about the readers on gates that lets them read faulty cards that other readers can't even detect. No-one told me anything about that at the time! |
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![]() sweek wrote: They do not, but you will have to reactivate them if you do not use one for 2 years. "The money on your Oyster card never expires - it stays there until you use it. However, if your card is not used for 2 years, you will have to reactivate it or claim back any unused cash by calling the Oyster helpline on 0845 330 9876. " http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tick...user-guide.pdf Maybe that's what went wrong with mine? Maybe it just went dormant before its time? I'd only used it two or three times in those two years, and maybe that wasn't enough to keep it active? |
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On 29 Dec 2006 07:21:29 -0800,
John B wrote: Based on my experience of living in London, commuting in London using Oyster, and being surrounded by friends and colleagues who do the same, the people for whom Oyster works fine nearly all the time encompasses... err... all of them, while the people who are cursed with errors and failures and crashes and bugs and breakdowns are... two people on Usenet. (the only problem I've had with Oyster was forgetting to renew my season ticket, not touching in at Finsbury Park because you don't need to if you have a season ticket, being stopped by inspectors while changing trains at Green Park and PF-d £20 for using PP without touching in. Which was more my fault than Oyster's anyway...) I work in London and have a prepay Oyster but almost never use it (about 40GBP/year in total which is why I no longer bother with Z1-6 on my Gold Card) - and when I do use it it's typically 3 journeys in one day so I'm using it less than once per month. The problem is that when you use it so infrequently you don't realise it hasn't worked properly. I've (only) had two problems - one at Leicester Square where the barriers were open and my card obviously didn't register when I badged in - I now know to watch for the green light to come on - but I had no idea at all that there had been a problem until a couple of months later when I went to top up and saw that there was an unresolved journey. The second problem was at Euston where again my card obviously didn't register properly - the barrier definitely beeped and the green light was on but the barrier slammed on me (it hurts). Clearly the person behind me didn't realise I'd done it wrong either because they'd already put their ticket into the barrier so then I was trapped between the closed barrier saying "take ticket" and the person trying to get out. (I then had to queue for the ticket office to find out whether I had an unresolved journey - I didn't. I could, in theory have used one of the machines but, of course, they weren't working properly either) The only problems I've ever had with paper tickets (on NR or the tube) is, a) my gold card fades and needs reprinting after about 6 months as it's unreadable although it still works fine in the barriers, and b) when travelling on a single ticket, usually they are swallowed by the barrier but occasionally you have to take the ticket and I usually spend an extra 5 seconds working out what has gone wrong before I see the ticket and the gate opens. I'm tempted to go back to an all zones travel card. I'll see how oyster works this year and then, if I'm still seeing occasional problems I'll probably go back to travelcard. OK, it will cost me about another 250GBP/year but the knowledge that I definitely won't have to queue for ten minutes to work out what has gone wrong is worth far more to me. (Actually I'd like to see the ability to buy paper tickets using oyster - I don't care about the cap and usually when I am travelling I'm with other people so the ability to go up to a machine, press Z1 single and then badge my oyster and get a paper ticket would be ideal particularly as I can then buy tickets for others as well.) Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://tjw.hn.org/ http://www.locofungus.btinternet.co.uk/ |
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