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Author: OfframpOfframp Date: Jul 12, 2008 05:13
It looks as if Oyster readers are not working on any London bus today.
Why not?
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Author: Paul ScottPaul Scott Date: Jul 12, 2008 05:18
> It looks as if Oyster readers are not working on any London bus today.
> Why not?
"Card fault hits London transport"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7503197.stm
Don't know what the Beeb are getting at here though:
"Passengers can currently use Oyster cards as a travel card to cover fares
for periods up to one year, as well as to cover single journeys for travel
to London destinations including overground stations.
It recently emerged that commuters within London travelling on First Great
Western (FGW) trains will be able to use pay-as-you-go Oyster cards from
September."
Suppose it depends what the author understands by 'overground' - but it
seems to ignore all the existing NR services where PAYG is available...
Paul S
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Author: gruslgrusl Date: Jul 12, 2008 05:20
On Jul 12, 5:13 pm, Offramp gmail.com> wrote:> It looks as if Oyster readers are not working on any London bus today.
> Why not?
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Author: OfframpOfframp Date: Jul 12, 2008 05:33
Paul Scott wrote:
>> It looks as if Oyster readers are not working on any London bus today.
>> Why not?
>
> "Card fault hits London transport"
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7503197.stm
>
> Don't know what the Beeb are getting at here though:
>
> "Passengers can currently use Oyster cards as a travel card to cover fares
> for periods up to one year, as well as to cover single journeys for travel
> to London destinations including overground stations.
>
> It recently emerged that commuters within London travelling on First Great
> Western (FGW) trains will be able to use pay-as-you-go Oyster cards from
> September."
> ...
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Author: Paul CorfieldPaul Corfield Date: Jul 12, 2008 05:49
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:13:24 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
gmail.com> wrote:
>It looks as if Oyster readers are not working on any London bus today.
>Why not?
Complete guess but I would expect a software change / download to be the
problem. All the gates are "on line" so can have revised software
downloaded quickly. Buses would get it via the garage system and hence
the comments from TfL about buses needing to go back to garages to be
"reset" later today.
All the buses I used this morning had "defective" card readers. One
driver had put a piece of paper over the reader saying "free day" and
happily telling everyone that it was a "special offer day" on the tube
and buses.
--
Paul C
Admits to working for London Underground!
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Author: hounslow3hounslow3 Date: Jul 12, 2008 11:15
> It's still not working on buses at 1:30pm.
> LOROL!
They also weren't working as at 7pm this evening.
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Author: Paul CorfieldPaul Corfield Date: Jul 12, 2008 11:38
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:15:44 +0100, yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> It's still not working on buses at 1:30pm.
>> LOROL!
>
>They also weren't working as at 7pm this evening.
My local route had working machines just after 1800 - the bus had been
in service all day but I assume there'd been a driver change and the new
module being put in the machine got things working again.
Every other bus (8 in all) I've been on today (barring a bendy where I
didn't check) has had non operative readers.
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Paul C
Admits to working for London Underground!
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Author: chunky munkychunky munky Date: Jul 12, 2008 18:30
On Jul 12, 1:49 pm, Paul Corfield dsl.pipex.com> wrote:> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:13:24 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
>
> gmail.com> wrote:>>It looks as if Oyster readers are not working on any London bus today.
>>Why not?
>
> Complete guess but I would expect a software change / download to be the
> problem. All the gates are "on line" so can have revised software
> downloaded quickly. Buses would get it via the garage system and hence
> the comments from TfL about buses needing to go back to garages to be
> "reset" later today.
>
> All the buses I used this morning had "defective" card readers. One
> driver had put a piece of paper over the reader saying "free day" and
> happily telling everyone that it was a "special offer day" on the tube
> and buses.
> --
> Paul C
> ...
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Author: Roland PerryRoland Perry Date: Jul 13, 2008 01:15
In message
d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, at
18:30:18 on Sat, 12 Jul 2008, chunky munky
hotmail.co.uk> remarked:>
>The problem with the software was that any card touched on a bit of
>Oyster kit was hotlisted and permenantly disabled. Anyone affected by
>this will have to get a brand new card.
Really? Have there been any press reports of this. You'd think people
would have noticed. And what about folks with combined Barclaycard/
Oyster, do you think they'll need a new one too?
If this was the case, how did people manage to "touch out" later in the
day, having attempted to "touch in" earlier?
--
Roland Perry
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Author: Steve DulieuSteve Dulieu Date: Jul 13, 2008 03:36
"Roland Perry" perry.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Wb5EDlEUmbeIFAom@perry.co.uk...> In message
> d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, at
> 18:30:18 on Sat, 12 Jul 2008, chunky munky hotmail.co.uk>
> remarked:>>
>>The problem with the software was that any card touched on a bit of
>>Oyster kit was hotlisted and permenantly disabled. Anyone affected by
>>this will have to get a brand new card.
>
> Really? Have there been any press reports of this. You'd think people
> would have noticed. And what about folks with combined Barclaycard/
> Oyster, do you think they'll need a new one too?
>
> If this was the case, how did people manage to "touch out" later in the
> day, having attempted to "touch in" earlier?
>
According to a staff bulletin put out Saturday morning, a "corrupted
electronic file" uploaded overnight meant that any oyster used before 09:30 ...
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