DynamicSpirit
Established Member
Woolwich Arsenal has for a long time had yellow Oyster machines sited at the interfaces between the national rail platforms and the DLR concourse. Does anyone know what the purpose of these are? Should they be there?
Since the yellow readers are for touching in/out at the beginning/end of your journey, the logical place to put them is at the station entrances and exits. But these machines are not located on any normal path between the platform and the station exits: The only reason anyone would walk past those machines is if they are interchanging between national rail and DLR - and as far as I'm aware there is no legitimate reason for anyone to touch in/out when doing that.
And worse - I've just discovered that a friend of mine has routinely been touching her (unregistered) card on those readers when changing from National Rail to DLR because she believed that she was supposed to (because the readers were there) - as well as correctly touching in and out at the start and end of each journey. Although I haven't yet checked, my suspicion is that this will mean she will have been incorrectly charged a lot more than she should have been for those journeys (presumably, a fare to Woolwich Arsenal when she touches her card on those machines and then a maximum 'no touch-in' fare 20 minutes or so later when she actually touches out at the end of her journey.
Since the yellow readers are for touching in/out at the beginning/end of your journey, the logical place to put them is at the station entrances and exits. But these machines are not located on any normal path between the platform and the station exits: The only reason anyone would walk past those machines is if they are interchanging between national rail and DLR - and as far as I'm aware there is no legitimate reason for anyone to touch in/out when doing that.
And worse - I've just discovered that a friend of mine has routinely been touching her (unregistered) card on those readers when changing from National Rail to DLR because she believed that she was supposed to (because the readers were there) - as well as correctly touching in and out at the start and end of each journey. Although I haven't yet checked, my suspicion is that this will mean she will have been incorrectly charged a lot more than she should have been for those journeys (presumably, a fare to Woolwich Arsenal when she touches her card on those machines and then a maximum 'no touch-in' fare 20 minutes or so later when she actually touches out at the end of her journey.