Jan 17
Ken London Transport muggers
My trip home from spending the weekend with my girlfriend was a source of inspiration for a 100 word tale. My trip home last night from a political event is the inspirations for this. In both cases it involves London Transport ripping me and the rest of its customers off. Ken & Co have raised the prices of a single trip on the tube from 2.20 to 3. If that is not bad enough when you travel by the bus you have to buy a ticket from a machine. These machines don’t give change; so they in a sense they are designed to rip you off. I paid 50p more for my trip (that has gone up .30 as well) than I should of. There was no place anywhere near to get change.
Would any company dare to behave like this? Would they get away with it? Of course not; people would get angry and either stop using their service or complain to the company. In many places they would sue the company for dishonesty.
To make matters worse this all part of a plan to force everyone who uses transport to get an Oyster card. Why do they want us all to buy an Osyter card? Because it will allow London Transports to track everyone’s every move.
I do hope either the new look Tory Party or Liberal Democrats manage to find someone who stands a chance of beating the terrorist-loving/Jew-hating totalitarian Ken Livingston.
4 Comments so far
“These machines dont give change…”
And I was sure this is an Israeli invention: we have these Nazi parking ticket machines that do not give change… Actually, sometimes no ticket as well.
You can use Oyster cards without having to register your name and address. So London Transport can tell that Oyster card XXXXXXXX was used in various places over a given period of time, but they can’t tell who used it.
You can buy an oyster card by just paying in funds, cash. So it is a pre-paid transport card. You “refill” the card when it runs low. The total charge for trips on any one day are limited to a fixed per day charge equal to several journeys. More journeys on that same day carry no charge. Or so I am told. The newsagent can give you the details. Also, the newsagent can put your card in a reader to tell you how much you have left on it.
The oyster card purchase requiring all your details, is for specific time periods, unlimited travel within specified zones for the month, three months, year, that you pay for.
Your post is close to the mark, in any case.
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