In the heat of mass promoting the oyster cards, Tfl forgot to iron out some serious issues which does hit them quite hard financially. One such issue is allowing to terminate the journey with negative balance on your oyster card.
I have seen lots of visitors in London who do not pay for the last journey in the city, and leave the city with negative balance on the card. I agree, that trains do not allow to commence a new journey, but if that is the last journey who cares. Same is true for monthly oyster cards. If you buy a monthly pass, you get an oyster for free, that is without any security deposit! So every month you accumulate oysters, and then have free journeys throughout london for once!
These are the losses if tfl can override, will save quite a handsome amount of money, and the honest commuters might be spared a fare rise next year! Because I am a software developer, I can say, it wont be that difficult to change the current system, to include this minor changes!
Mayor Ken, are you listening?
I have seen lots of visitors in London who do not pay for the last journey in the city, and leave the city with negative balance on the card. I agree, that trains do not allow to commence a new journey, but if that is the last journey who cares. Same is true for monthly oyster cards. If you buy a monthly pass, you get an oyster for free, that is without any security deposit! So every month you accumulate oysters, and then have free journeys throughout london for once!
These are the losses if tfl can override, will save quite a handsome amount of money, and the honest commuters might be spared a fare rise next year! Because I am a software developer, I can say, it wont be that difficult to change the current system, to include this minor changes!
Mayor Ken, are you listening?
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