 Oystercards on DLR
I frequently travel on the DLR and use have used my Staff Oyster-Card since
it was issued to me last September. Todate, I have never had a PSA use one
of the hand held scanners, although I have been to asked to show it on
numerous occassions. I expect that one day I will meet a PSA with a
scanner, but it hasn't happened yet. That said, I expect the Revenue
Protection teams will also have the same scanners for the rest of the
Underground
"James Farrar" <londonstatto.uk> wrote in message
news:3F0F57EE.9010806.uk...
> I had a chat with a couple of Passenger Service Agents on the two DLR
> trains I took home tonight, regarding implementation of Oystercard on DLR.
>
> Highlights of the discussion:
>
> A few (a very small number) of PSAs currently have handheld Oystercard
> readers. One of the two PSAs I met tonight had one, and I was the first
> non-Staff Oystercard holder he had encountered. He scanned my
> Oystercard, and it worked OK. However, he commented that he has had some
> problems scanning Staff Oystercards.
>
> Theoretically all DLR PSAs have had a day's training on the handheld
> reader. However (inevitably) some were on leave or off sick when the
> training took place and (even more inevitably) some of the handheld
> readers have been issued to PSAs who missed the day's training...
>
> Both PSAs admitted that PSAs without a handheld reader will currently
> take an Oystercard on trust, provided it's shown with a Photocard.
> However, they seemed sure that the rollout of handheld readers to PSAs
> will be progressing fairly rapidly.
>
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