> On 18 Sep, 14:46, Tom Anderson wrote:

>> 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

>
> As part of the upgrade process for Oystercard readers to accept ITSO
> cards, the readers will be upgraded to accept Visa Wave and
> Mastercard Paypass cards.
>
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