Re: Ticket barriers and the law

On Jul 25, 9:32 pm, Chris <chrisjba...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 25 Jul, 18:24, billetelic_ferroequinolog...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > If there are software or similar issues that mean that certain types
> > of tickets cannot be recognised, then why the **** can the TOCs not
> > put up a large, clear notice saying something like "please use the
> > manual gate for advance purchase tickets and Rover tickets".
>
> Got it in one. Well, for break of journey tickets, anyway. Chiltern
> quoted me £250,000 to buy updated software for just that. And that was
> for one station's worth. I guess there'd be on-costs for each
> station's licence.


This is one situation that Oyster seems to have improved.

Previously, if you got a ticket from a travelcard boundary to anywhere
outside London, the barriers (without warning) would refuse to let you
through.  The idea was presumably that you had to show someone that
you actually had a travelcard.

Now that so many travelcards are on Oyster, which they haven't issued
readers for at every station to which you can travel from a zone
boundary, they have abandoned this and extension tickets seem to work
the barriers now.
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