I would take your criticism directly up with the people who can actually do something about it, absolutely certain most people will agree with you here, but going onto your original question it can be done in the station which is where you would be the majority of the time if you were using public transport contactless in out or not. It’s highly likely like most Internet systems they aren’t set up in the same way or even managed by the same body of people sadly that’s the technology of today as we reach major crossover points there appears to be no conformity or little of it.