Kevin Harrington

Tag: Oyster card

  • Prepaid gets people out of cars and onto buses

    Prepaid and smart cards are contributing to the migration of passengers from the comfort of their cars and onto public transport buses. Well that appears to be the assertion. The Go-Ahead Group has reported a 7.2 per cent rise in passengers using its deregulated bus services in the first quarter of 2011, hinting that motorists are saying…

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  • Going cashless

    Payment though the ages has been a slowly evolving process. We started with a system of barter, which was not always convenient: who would want to be a tax collector in those days? We then moved to paying in gold which got replaced by cash and, for a huge proportion of the World, life did…

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  • London turns Underground commuting into a game

    What’s this all about? Regular players might even be tempted to break one of the Tube’s greatest taboos, and talk to strangers on trains, in the hope of recruiting new members for their team. You never know. via London Turns Subway Commuting Into a Game – Techland – TIME.com. Simply it is a fun new…

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