• UK trains to introduce contactless ticketing system like the London Underground
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/feka.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/12075299/End-of-the-paper-train-ticket-as-railways-go-paperless.html[/url] [quote]Paper train tickets could become extinct under plans to allow passengers to tap in and out of stations with their bank cards, The Telegraph has learnt. As soon as next year, rail users will be able "buy" journeys online – using a computer or mobile phone – and travel carrying just the credit or debit card with which they paid. Banks, train groups and representatives from the Department for Transport have held meetings to discuss how quickly the technology could be introduced across the country, it can be disclosed. Under the plans, customers will be able to "store" their tickets on so-called contactless credit or debit cards. Ticket barriers will be upgraded so they are similar to those on the London Underground, where tube passengers can tap their cards to pay.[/quote]
Fucking gross. Cubic. Why the fuck are they not out of business yet? They put that shit in here and not only is it years late and tens of millions overbudget but they had to disable contactless debit and credit cards because they operate on the same frequency as the fare cards and passes and people were being double ticketed.
[QUOTE=pentium;49426870]Fucking gross. Cubic. Why the fuck are they not out of business yet? They put that shit in here and not only is it years late and tens of millions overbudget but they had to disable contactless debit and credit cards because they operate on the same frequency as the fare cards and passes and people were being double ticketed.[/QUOTE] It works really well in London though. If your oyster/contactless gets double ticketed, the system knows and issues a refund 3-5 days after. If it doesn't, you can still contact by phone or email and very easily get the refund at literally no hassle. The system proposed in the OP isn't for payments anyway (second sentence of the OPs quote), but instead using it as a replacement for the annoying paper tickets which you get when you do train journeys around the UK. Less stuff to carry, and less bits of paper which you need to keep on you while doing long journeys is a great thing.
We've had problem after problem with ours ever since the first gate was installed in 2012 and even then they didn't actually start closing any of the gates or even activating the new vending machines until a few months ago and they still have not declared the rollout complete until next summer even though there's massive bugs and latency problems with the system. Some of our stations had to be completely rebuilt to even install the pieces of shit. I hear there's also a few other cities also bitching about how piss poor the product and service is compared to systems running in Japan and China.
Great! Would be nice if it worked with NFC to, have all the tickets on your phone.
The qr code smartphone app system delta does for boarding passes sounds like a better system.
cubic have installed contactless sensors on almost every gate at a major station, all railway companies have their own smartcard systems in various stages of deployment, it's only a bit more work to make it work with contactless also the smartcards and contactless cards being on the same frequency is [I]the point[/I] - it's so you can choose what to use
When I was in London a few weeks ago I used a gate in the underground with my contactless card and after the first day I just bought a ticket as I didn't like having to keep getting my purse out of my bag. I'm also a paranoid person and wouldn't want to drop my card (knowing me I probably would).
buying a ticket is substantially more expensive so you wasted a lot of money there
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