London car Congestion Charge TfL

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

I expect so, it sounds like the issue with the handheld readers that ticket inspectors used was related to the prepaid card not liking offline transactions, which the debit cards can handle -

TfL. Train Oyster checking

Again, this is a long standing known issue. I could talk for a long time on why it only affects the ticket inspector handhelds, how TfL contactless works at a high level and the technical choices TfL made to get here with this issue. The short answer is that the handheld readers will try to authorise an offline transaction for the amount of the maximum fare and then either drop it or commit it to the payment networks later when the journey history for the card is all collected and calculated. M…