Bus Ticket Machines

I really hate these machines for several reasons.

1. I always forget that I need to buy a ticket right up until the bus arrives, meaning that I often miss it whilst fumbling around for change.

2. Too often the bloody things are out of order.

3. They don't give you any change, I learned this the hard way with a £2 coin and a £1.20 ticket!

4. You really want to get home quickly, you see your bus pulling into the stop so you run for it then realise you haven't got a ticket.

Damn these machines, Ken please get rid of them.

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Agreed, those machines are the work of Mephistopheles himself. Get yourself an Oyster card mate.

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yeh missing the bus can be annoying, but you needn't lose your change at the same time. often the machines need encouragement to give you the change, try kicking them, it always works.

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I actually hit one of those machines once when it swallowed my money and didn't give out any change, or a ticket.

I swear they're designed to cause maximum damage in a conflict situation with an irrate customer. I really bloody hurt my hand

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Oh didn't you hear?

It's TfL's new money making scheme it runs along with the downright useless with Congestion Charges,the Council Tax Rates and the fact you wait for an hour for a bus due every 10 mins then 6 come along.

It's simply really it has a fruit machine policy, whilst using a central london ticket machine you have a 1 in 345 chance of winning a bus ticket. Do you feel lucky?

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By the way I recommend that to save yourself a world of rectal pains you buy an Oyster card and keep it topped up. On the plus side Transport for London couldn't quite get the algorithms right on the machines so it works out cheaper in most cases, until they do get it right they have advertised it as better rates for prepay. Funny thing is that is the honest truth!

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I thought the prices were cheaper to encourage people to use Oyster cards, sounds like you've got some insider knowledge on this

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Nah, they just screwed up by letting the news out in the metro before the oyster lauch as an update, apparentley the technical difficulty they never managed to fix was designing a system which would update the entire network with the new prices, which is why if you notice prices charged are the ones which were charged before

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Got caught out by one of those sodding ticket machines last week - fumbling around for some change as the bus pulled off in front of my eyes.

Sooo much easier than just giving your money to the bus conductor. Another techonological advance for London.

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What i hate about the bus fares down there is that you pay £1.50 regardless of how many stops you're going!!! terrible

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