Free Oyster Card

isabelle304

This thread is confusing me. When I got my Oystercard (in 2003, when the scheme had just started), I did not have to pay for it. I am deducing from your posts that now you have to pay to get the card (but not much) and that this small fee has put off people getting the card, even though in the long run they save a lot more on fares, which is why London Transport is running this special offer? Have I got it right?

Bargain_Rzl

isabelle, I think the promotion is more to increase uptake generally, rather than to remedy a particularly low uptake. I doubt if anybody would necessarily be "put off" by a £3 fee, when you can save this much in a single tube journey.

corris3

make sure you enter post code in capitals, my first go in lower case was rejected, possbly i thought because i live outside London, but retried in caps and it was accepted.

fablad75

wiggynut + bargain rzl: My card is called the lewishamCard+ and it has a hotline number (08456019027) as well as the Oyster and Transport for London logos. I signed up with the library on Lewisham High Street, if that's any help.

24ctu_2

Brilliant! Thanks for this.

Come September I'll be a poor first-year student in London (UCL) so this will be very useful indeed!

Miss_Wanda

Thanks, I've sent for one

Lord_Gardener

Thanks, this was new to us!

mygirllolipop

Thanks Martin, we are going to London later this year, myself and my husband already have these but I now have a free one sent to my mother who is coming with us to help with the 4 kids.

angel

Are you sure that you usually have to pay for them? I live in London and have always been given them for free when I buy my buspass.

Wiggynut

I live near both - I'm in the middle! I walk past the Peckham library now to/from work so it's easier to get to than the Lewisham one as I rarely go in that direction now! I kept taking books back late - hate that and a waste of money to.
I was with the Greenwhich library also but I think the Peckham one is the most useful.