MSE News: No more cash fares on London buses from Sunday

Indie_Kid

I wish they'd do that down here. Kind of fed up of waiting for someone to find their purse and find the right change to pay the driver.

plumber2009

Time to roll out oyster nationwide. Its faster, safer and more convenient.

jbuchanangb

Why wouldn't you get an oyster card? You get the money back for the deposit on just 2 single journeys on the tube. Single tube fare is £4.70. Single tube fare in Zone 1 with Oyster is £2.20, i.e. £2.50 less. Deposit for Oyster is £5.
Get the card at the first opportunity as soon as you arrive in London, probably an Underground Station, but there are all sorts of other places.
If you have a National Rail card, register that on the Oyster and get a third of off-peak train and tube trips.

waqasahmed

geerex wrote: »

I've managed to survive 30 odd years avoiding London, this is just another reason to maintain that stance. Well, that and not being able to speak the language - arabic is the official lingua franca of Londonistan is it not?

How freaking ignorant... If you're implying that there are a lot of Muslims there, then most Muslims are going to be either Pakistani/Bengali, who either speak punjabi/bengali/urdu or or or or... English....

Puffin74

It would be great if they rolled this out into other cities in the UK...

Saunatonttu

Please forgive me for being thick but how would one for example make a single bus journey from say Euston to Paddington without an Oyster Card or Contactless Payment Card. Can you buy tickets at tube stations?

dzug1

Saunatonttu wrote: »

Please forgive me for being thick but how would one for example make a single bus journey from say Euston to Paddington without an Oyster Card or Contactless Payment Card. Can you buy tickets at tube stations?

You could not make such a journey without an Oyster card or a contactless card or a valid travelcard of some description.


You can get an Oyster card or a travelcard at a tube station but not a bus ticket.


The cheapest solution is to get an Oyster card, make the journey and return the Oyster at Paddington. Cost - £5 deposit (refundable) plus the fare

Saunatonttu

dzug1 wrote: »

You could not make such a journey without an Oyster card or a contactless card or a valid travelcard of some description.


You can get an Oyster card or a travelcard at a tube station but not a bus ticket.


The cheapest solution is to get an Oyster card, make the journey and return the Oyster at Paddington. Cost - £5 deposit (refundable) plus the fare

Thank you for replying, they do seem to want to make things difficult.

macman

Difficult? No, they want to make it easier for the 95%+ of travellers who use Oyster or contactless cards.
I must have wasted weeks of my life over the years waiting for London bus drivers to process cash fares: it's an anachronism that most European cities got rid of decades ago.

pstuart

macman wrote: »

Difficult? No, they want to make it easier for the 95%+ of travellers who use Oyster or contactless cards.
I must have wasted weeks of my life over the years waiting for London bus drivers to process cash fares: it's an anachronism that most European cities got rid of decades ago.

Just London for the Londoners then.