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

[Peter Childs]

On 16/01/07, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2007, Martyn Drake verbalised:
>
> > On 1/16/07, John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Because they have to employ people to collect and process them. Oyster
> >> cards are all about replacing workers with machines.
> >
> > That's amused me because I've seen more revenue inspectors on the
> > buses these days than I ever did.  So just where is the saving in
> > that, I ask?
>
> There are half a dozen waiting for each train at King's Cross, and
> they seem to wake me up on every damned journey. (I'm afraid I
> snapped at one of them the other day when he woke me for the
> fourth time in one journey...)
>
> First Crapital are of course claiming that hiring more ticket inspectors
> is good for *us*. How is quite unclear. (But they stuck their logo
> on the outside of the trains as well as ramming up fares, so they
> *must* be good, ho-ho.)
>
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