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

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:28:39PM -0000, John Winters wrote:
> > On 1/16/07, John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> > Ah well, now there's a point.  Why are the cash fares so expensive
> >> > now?
> >>
> >> Because they have to employ people to collect and process them. Oyster
> >> cards are all about replacing workers with machines.
> >
> > Errr... no. Oyster cards are intended to replace paper tickets. Paper
> > tickets have been issued and read by machines on the tube for many
> > years now, with no need to for human intervention.
> 
> It's not the tickets which incur the expense - it's handling the cash.
> 
> The current ticket machines have to be emptied of cash, which then has to
> be transported, counted, resolved and banked.

Not quite sure how Oyster cards help here.  You still have to top them
up, and mostly that's done with cash.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat UK Limited
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