So this morning I went to get on the tube, and there was a ‘network wide system failure’, meaning that all the gates were open. Free travel for all whether you have an Oyster card or not, with warnings not to try and touch in or out in case cards became corrupted… For the second time in two weeks.
I wonder if it has anything to do with this?
Image from Annie Mole
Updated: Turns out it was something a lot more mundane – corrupted files distributed to ticket gates. The London transport commissioner was ‘incandescent with rage‘. I’d quite like to see that.