Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oyster Card

Posted by polemic on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:56PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@sushilnash/a-beginners-guide-to-using-my-get-me-there-manchester-s-hilarious-attempt-at-reinventing-london-s-70a6d1dde246

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by northernmonkey on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:35PM (#15271559)

Why does the local authority have to fund this anyway? Isn't 'innovation' one of the reasons public transport outside London was sold off?

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by FearNotDaniel on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:46AM (#15283725)

What's really shocking is the very last entry on the FAQ page [1], which appears to imply that UK Govt has mandated every location outside of London should use some "standard" which is far, far inferior to the tried and tested Oyster system.

[1] http://www.getmethere.com/help.php

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by londons_explore on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:04PM (#15271138)

Classic example of a government system built by an army of contractors and consultants who don't really have the "built a fast, simple, useful, profitable" mentality.

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by Symbiote on Sunday September 17, 2017 @05:21PM (#15271782)

That's not really fair to Transport for London, the government system they built (Oyster) is fast, simple, useful and profitable. And still the only one in the world to work with a normal contactless card (or phone).

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by mvid on Sunday September 17, 2017 @05:41PM (#15271858)

What do you mean? The vast majority of transit cards I've experienced work contactless

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by garblegarble on Sunday September 17, 2017 @06:11PM (#15271973)

I think the OP is stating that it's the only transit system that lets you use a contactless credit card / ApplePay / etc. rather than a dedicated transit card (I didn't realise no other transit system had that! It seems like such an easy win)

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Re:Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oy... by sctb on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:53PM (#15278478)

Please comment civilly and substantively here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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