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

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:51:57 +0000 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
wrote:

> 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.
> 


That's why there are notices everywhere trying to get you to register
online and use the auto-top-up facility,

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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