blech:
posted on 2005/10/04 19:35
Cash tube fare to go up to three quid at the same time as an Oyster prepay fare drops to half that.
Of course, this is all a pre-announcment for fare changes that happen in January, so the headline "Tubes and buses hit by fare hike" is a bit naughty.
(While we're on the subject, slaps to the Evening Standard for their "Congestion charge zone doubled" headlines when the extension was announced; it doesn't start for nearly 18 months, yet they're using the present tense. Sigh.)
Also, as the table shows, if you do use Oyster prepay, the fares actually, er, fall.
To the extent that a tube journey in the suburbs is now pretty competitive with buses.
I did spy a poster somewhere out in the wilds of the western Piccadilly line last week saying that you no longer need to register to get an Oyster card. That's new, if it's the case, and might help some of the paranoid privacy nuts who've been put off so far.
An Oyster card user, yesterday:
I bet they've used that photo loads.
On the TfL page introducing the package, it states:
Almost 50 per cent of Tube journeys and 40 per cent of bus journeys are made using Oyster, but the majority of those are season tickets.
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE