Ticketer new Touch in Touch out

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RE: Ticketer new Touch in Touch out

(23/05/2021 23:13)Liamkennedy2231 Wrote:  Further to cfm146g’s post, been plenty of time wasted on the likes of the 79C and 82A where a passenger asks for a single to a specific location, so the driver then has to monotonously scroll through all the fare stages to ensure the correct fare is charged.

On the very few occasions that I have used my ENCTS outside of Merseyside, the driver has asked me my final destination and very quickly issued me with a paper ticket with said destination printed on it. When Ultimate and Almex tickets were used, it was incumbent on the conductor - and later driver - to know every fare between stages. To an extent we have all become reliant on the microchip remembering the most basic of information. Other than our own, how many telephone numbers can any of us recall without looking it up?