Swiping technique

[nanila]

Poll #14131 Swipey swipey

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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How do you swipe your Oyster/metro/RFID card?

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A quick tap directly over the reader
10 (45.5%)

Slap, hold and twist as you pass through the barrier
8 (36.4%)

Waft without making contact
1 (4.5%)

Other
3 (13.6%)

Other?

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I used to be a Wafter. However, when I started checking my Oyster balance online regularly, I discovered that the barriers would frequently open for me but fail to register one endpoint of my journey. After the umpteenth time of having to file for a refund from being hit with the maximum daily charge, I decided to change. So now I'm in the Slap-and-Hold camp.

Comments

[kaberett]

When you use both hands to locomote, and you've got to be far enough back that you're not on the pressure pad so's the reader might actually register your card, and there's no way not to lean awkwardly...

[nanila]

SUCKS. Also, buses, where you can get on the bus and then not go down the aisle to swipe your Oyster. Accessibility FAIL.

[kaberett]

IT IS REALLY BIZARRE APPARENTLY YOU JUST TRAVEL FOR FREE IF YOU ARE A WHEELCHAIR USER ON A BUS BECAUSE YOU ARE ASSUMED TO HAVE A FREEDOM PASS???

[nanila]

EVERYONE ON A LONDON BUS IS FROM LONDON DON'T YOU KNOW AND PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS ARE OVER 65 YEP YEP

[kaberett]

NO THIS IS THE WORST THING my local "free public transport" card worKS ON BUSES BUT NOT THE TUUUUUUUBE :D

IN THE SENSE OF "WORKS ON BUSES" WHERE UH ACTUALLY "THE READER DOESN'T RECOGNISE IT BUT THE DRIVER JUST WAVES ME ON DISGUSTEDLY IF I'M WALKING THAT DAY"

[nanila]

THIS IS A VERY GOOD SYSTEM WHEREIN GOOD MEANS CRIKEY-WHO-DESIGNED-THIS-FECKING-BOONDOGGLE

[kaberett]

(One automatically qualifies for free public transport of one receives Higher Rate on the Mobility component of Disability Living Allowance. The majority of wheelchair users probably do. I don't, because the ways in which walking makes a mess of me are not ones that the DWP/Atos have any interest in admitting. Ergo I receive Lower Rate Mobility, and have a free bus pass because nobody wants me to drive, but getting someone to say "this person really shouldn't drive" in a medical-certificate-y sort of a way is (a) expensive and (b) time-consuming, if your condition is not (ahahahaha) one of the ones that automatically excludes you from driving according to the DVLA...)