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

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:49:39 +0000 "Martyn Drake" <martyn at drake.org.uk>
wrote:

> 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?
> 
>

TfL would no doubt be able to give you the definitive answer. But it's
a normal solution to the question of staff reduction. Basically, you
need fewer workers to check what a machine does than you do to get the
work done manually. I basically spent the whole of the 1970s and 1980s
developing computer systems that paid for themselves that way (and on
the way contributed my fourpennorth to the millennium bug),

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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