Yup, the UK once again creating a needlessly convoluted and harmful solution to an already solved problem.
I would laugh if I didn’t live here.
Classic UK
Here, have this sensible modernisation… With a side of surveillance
Nah, it’s surveillance with a side of sensible modernization.
So they’ve created a dependency on your phone’s location service being always on for what reason, exactly?
Why is this not needed anywhere else that contactless payment for transit services has been successfully implemented?
One of them actually being London. They had contactless pay with Google pay there for years already, without location service. You tab to go on and tab when you exit the metro
I mean this is something our national train operator offers since years https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/apps/sbb-mobile/easyride.html
I use this all the time, it’s great.
Yeah only downside, at least on Android, don’t know how it is on iOS, you need to activate all google location accuracy options in order to make it work. Just using the built-in GPS is not sufficient.
Why they can’t just have turnstiles at the major stations ? I mean that’s how most places work anyway? If someone stays on for a further stop outside the stiles it’s only a short leg anyway.
What’s the point?
The UK literally already does and also on trains your tickets get randomly checked too so even if your moving between small stations there is a chance you’ll youll caught
Germany had something like this for a while which which was nice because it was useable in most major cities. Sadly the system has been discontinued: https://www.heise.de/news/Ticketdienst-Touch-Travel-stirbt-in-wenigen-Wochen-3344661.html
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