The Government has announced plans to trial a new part-time rail ticket, allowing commuters who work three or four days a week to benefit from the same savings as monthly and yearly ticket-holders. Transport Minister Norman Baker told the Evening Standard that a trial of the new ticket would be carried out “on a busy […]
TfL considers axing cash bus fares after usage falls below 1%
Transport for London is consulting on proposals to scrap cash fares on buses after the number of passengers paying in cash has fallen from 20 percent to less than one percent.
Incoherent and confused, Sadiq Khan’s message is unworthy of a Mayor
A call for lower fares but more transport spending, a campaign headlined “The Great Tory Train Robbery” which opens with the complaint that “bus journeys have gone up” and the repetition of an attack that failed to win last year’s Mayor of London election. This is the incoherent mess with which Labour MP Sadiq Khan […]
Boris: No weekly Oyster capping until 2015
Weekly fare caps for Oyster Pay as You Go users are unlikely to be introduced until 2015 according to a letter from Mayor Boris Johnson to Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon
TfL announces ticketing contractor shortlist
Transport for London (TfL) has announced the shortlisted bidders to operate capital’s ticketing system up to 2022. The companies – Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd, LG CNS Co CNF and Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH – will now submit detailed bids ahead of the contract being awarded by October 2014. The successful bidder will be responsible for […]
