> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

>> Tom Anderson wrote:

>

>>> It doesn't address the problem with recharging your oyster at night,
>>> though. I would have thought that could be done fairly simply by having
>>> some oyster machines - which could be of the card-only type - on the
>>> outside of tube stations, and so accessible outside opening hours.

>

>> Great for the tube areas but what about those parts of London where the
>> tube is not within walking distance? Virtually all the shops that charge
>> Oysters that I know of close at least two hours before the tube does.

>
> True.
>
> The situation i was primarily thinking of is trying to get home after a
> night out, where generally, i'm in the middle of town where there are lots
> of tube stations. I would imagine this pattern accounts for the majority
> of post-closing-time bus use, although of course not all.
>
> I'm stumped as to how you could deal with the problem in the situation you
> describe, though. Night buses don't take cash, so no solution involving a
> chit is going to work. Putting chip-and-pin on buses seems like a
> non-starter. I think that means you have to put fixed machines around the