(Please don't mention oyster in any responses to this thread)
Hello,
In the bus world, I've seen it suggested that operators concerned make it impossible to use smartcards with rivals. What I mean is that if (and the products are just examples here) someone has a GoAhead "the key" then goes to an SWT station to load an SWT season ticket on may be refused - either because of the way GoAhead has initialized the card, or the way SWT has instructed its staff to only load products onto its own cards.
As I said, I've chosen SWT and GoAhead as illustrations - I am unaware whether either have the issue or not.
So my question is, has this phenomenon occurred on any of the ITSO rail schemes (which I think is just the Stagecoach SWT one and some 'the key' on GoVia.
Hello,
In the bus world, I've seen it suggested that operators concerned make it impossible to use smartcards with rivals. What I mean is that if (and the products are just examples here) someone has a GoAhead "the key" then goes to an SWT station to load an SWT season ticket on may be refused - either because of the way GoAhead has initialized the card, or the way SWT has instructed its staff to only load products onto its own cards.
As I said, I've chosen SWT and GoAhead as illustrations - I am unaware whether either have the issue or not.
So my question is, has this phenomenon occurred on any of the ITSO rail schemes (which I think is just the Stagecoach SWT one and some 'the key' on GoVia.