[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Martin A. Brooks]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Nix wrote:
>   
>> There was another very important reason: it hugely improves flow around
>> ticket barriers if most people use Oyster, because it takes a fraction
>> of the time to validate the card as it does to feed a ticket through.
>> (Normally about a fifth as long.)
>>     
>
> You've said this before, and you didn't produce any kind of evidence to 
> support this statistic then.  Can you do so now?
>
> If anything, I think Oyster makes things faster, no ticket orientation 
> problems, for a start.
>
>   

Oh, duh. I misread, sorry.  We are in fact agreeing mostly.  I think 
Oyster _is_ faster, but I wouldn't say you can get 5 Oysters through a 
barrier in the same time it takes one paper ticket user.
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