new oyster covers

Talking of that, glanced at a re-designed Oyster Card today... looked like it had a piccy of a park or summat on it...

The Oyster card stickers to personalise your card are interesting.

I know of at least one member of staff who would confiscate such a personalised card.

On a related note - some LU staff (not me ) are trialing an official Oyster watch. Expect it to hit the streets before Christmas.

Haven't seen the redesigned Oyster card, but have seen the visitors Oyster card which looks rather good actually, better than the blue boring one.

Yep.

Thing is, is that the Oyster still remains property of the organistaion that issued it - in this case Tfl. It's the same with personalising tickets too, as detailed in the Conditions of Carriage. Technically, an Oyster is not passengers property in the first place, and they shouldn't alter it in any way.

it will feel like school where if we drew on our books we had to buy a new one......i dont see what the problem is its our oyster card we paid £3 for it, we can do what we want

I presume the restriction is there to stop people fiddling with the internals, so people don't modify them so they system thinks its a staff pass or somebody else's card or something along those lines.

It's like most cards you 'own'. Bank cards etc all remain the property of the issuer and must be given up on demand. Tickets have always been sold this way. You don't buy the ticket but the right to travel and the ticket is a token or receipt.

My original comment was based on the fact that I know of at least one member of staff (probably more) who would take one look at the personalised Oyster and would confiscate it as it wasn't standard. The member of staff I'm thinking of even queried the new Visitors Oyster - and that was advertised in the Traffic Circular.

Although if you bought from a machine/ online nobody would ever see your Oyster Card would they.

Without going into the finer details of an Oyster card - the rewards for anybody who could do so would be great.

A similar problem occurred to Cellnet many years back when somebody cracked their system.