Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
People still need to get home, stupid/drunk/disorganised or not
London buses to go cashless 6 july
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Then they can borrow an Oyster card off someone else, or get a taxi.
Same way when you drunkenly lose your front door key you get a spare you left with a neighbour or call a locksmith.
RedDragon
"I am not one of your fans!"
I'd blame the front door and give it a damned good kicking.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Neither is ann option for many people.
You can't borrow oyster cards anyway. You can only swipe once.
The cash option is a necessary one and it's daft to give it up
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
One of your group could carry a spare? I have three fwiw.
If a bus not excepting coins is going to leave you unable to think of any way to get home or find somewhere safe to stay until morning, perhaps you shouldn't be straying so far from your place of residence and getting so drunk in the first place?
You cant blame bus payment methods for all of your first world problems.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
What if you're on your own? A very likely scenario at the end of a night.
Do whatever it is that you'd do if you were on you're own and had lost your wallet/purse
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Walk home? It's daft. They need to keep the cash option, if only for safety reasons.
What if you're drunk and Oysterless but not near a bus route? Should they offer a free taxi service to the nearest bus stop?
Fancy expecting to be able to pay for something with actual money. What are they thinking........
Ridiculous argument.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
You're being ridiculous now. They just need to be able to accept cash on night buses.
No need to be a bellend about it.
Pre-Easter weekend, too much time and not enough money, young uns bored or skiving off revision... I don't know what it is, but something around this time of year certainly brings out the more tiresome varieties of troll.
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
That wasn't her fault or the bus driver's fault it was the rapist's fault.
How about this one? Should she have waited for a bus for which she had the means to pay?
mack
Fact Me Till I Fart
Theres an app for android which does this and more.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hanimobile.oysterads
Same as - and although the nearest place which does Oyster is nearer to me than you, even that one often hasn't got the machine working.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
That would be great for me. I only visit London a couple of times a year, so am far more likely to remember where my phone is before I go then an oyster!
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Perhaps the Oyster card could be expanded so that it covers a wider area. Luton and Brighton would be zone 12 and Birmingham zone 18.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
I think it's a bad idea ... although I understand that operating in cash is a PITA for the operator, safety considerations (and considerations of catering to visitors / foreigners / drunk people / women / people who often run into unexpected situations) mean that buses definitely do need a cash option... imho making cash fares an extortionate multiple of the oyster fares, which they do already, is enough.
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RedDragon
"I am not one of your fans!"
You're so 2035.
Why would I have a card I'm not in contact with?
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Nope. And I won't for more than 18 months. And not everybody ever will.
You're so 2035.
That one has gone right over my head....sorry....
Couldn't you plan for that unplanned journey by always leaving £1.40 or whatever on the card?
This new system "cashless system" will only be really difficult to navigate for people who don't have contactless cards or don't have an idea of how much they need on the oyster card if they don't have auto top up set up? https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/link/sso/0002.do
Surely if you plan your journey for the week, top up your card and add an "emergency" amount you will be fine?....
Of course withdrawing cash payments on the bus isn't ideal...it's an inconvenience, but one that many people will most likely forget about it pretty quickly.
I'm actually quite an organised person but even I'm not that organised.
And then wouldn't you have the same problem coming home anyway, bearing in mind that there are so many places that it's not that easy to find a nearby shop that does top-up.
Nope - next!
No. Perhaps your life is more structured than mine: One fortnight, I can just about make £15 stretch to cover all my off peak bus fares, the next, it doesn't. All to do with the offpeak cap and when it cuts off.
^This.
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