[Gllug] ist that right that the Oyster card got RFID on it?

[Holger Duerer]

>>>>> "Tet" == Tethys  <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> writes:

    Tet> Nix writes:

    >> There are also efficiency concerns. Ticket gates using the old
    >> cardboard tickets are *slower* than Oyster (about twice as slow
    >> by my guesstimates, and much slower when a ticket fails
    >> scanning).

    Tet> You think so? By my observation, I'd say the opposite is
    Tet> true.
Indeed.  Maybe not twice slower but definitely slower.

    Tet> Plus Oyster cards fail to scan *far* more frequently than
    Tet> paper tickets.
In my personal experience they fail to read at least 10 times more
often than the old paper tickets did.  Some stations are worse -- e.g.
Stanmore here is a royal pain...

         Holger
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