MSE News: Tube fares to rise 2.5% next year, but daily usage caps will fall

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Tube fares will increase by slightly less next year than they did this year, but the daily cap for PAYG users will fall...

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Tube fares to rise 2.5% next year, but daily usage caps will fall




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Geeky

Daily caps will (in general) fall, but the off-peak cap has been withdrawn. So if you previously travelled off peak, your daily cap will INCREASE.

Worse still if you live outside Zone 6 where the daily cap will in fact be INCREASED; the off-peak Zone 7 cap will rise from £11.60 (off-peak) to £20 (daily), an increase of over 72% (perhaps this is why the table given to the press stopped at Zone 6? )

And, of course, with the end of off-peak caps there will be less incentive for people to delay their travel until the peak period ends at 9.30, so we can expect an increase in overcrowding on morning peak hour trains

silvercar

I'm confused:

The all-day 1-6 travelcard will remain frozen at £17

and

Zones 1-6 will be capped at £11.70, down from £15.80.

iAMaLONDONER

silvercar wrote: »

I'm confused:



and

The paper Z1-6 will be frozen.

iAMaLONDONER

Geeky wrote: »

Daily caps will (in general) fall, but the off-peak cap has been removed. So if you previously travelled off peak, your daily cap will INCREASE.

Worse still if you live outside Zone 6 where the daily cap will in fact be INCREASED; the off-peak Zone 7 cap will rise from £11.60 to £20, an increase of over 72% (perhaps this is why the table in the web site stopped at Zone 6? )

And, of course, with the end of off-peak caps there will be no incentive for people to delay their travel until the peak period ends at 9.30, so we can expect an increase in overcrowding on morning peak hour trains

Also no mention about what happens to the Z2-3+ weekly or longer travelcards (e.g Z2-3,Z2-4,Z2-5,etc.)

Davek2000

As a new user i can't post links but if you go to the TFL website the full list of fares are there.


It only gives you the weekly T/CD prices so if you want a rough idea of what monthly and annual t/cds are just use 2.5% of your current price

Davek2000

the weekly 2-3, 3-4, 2-4 etc seem to be going up between 30-70p

Davek2000

Weekly fares:
2-3, 3-4, 4-5 etc up from £16.50 to £16.80
2-4, 3-5,4-6 etc up from £18.20 to £18.60
2-5, 3-6 etc up from £21.80 to £22.30

Geeky

Full list of fares is shown here

http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fare_tables_2015.pdf

Weekly travelcards are shown on the first page, and it says monthly travelcards are 3.84 times the weekly prices, and annual travelcards are 40 times the weekly prices.

The fares quoted by Davek2000 seem to be the 18+ student scheme fares; for normal passengers the Zone 2-3, 3-4 etc weekly cards will go from 23.60 to 24.10, so the monthly and annual prices will become 92.60 and 964 respectively

silvercar

iAMaLONDONER wrote: »

The paper Z1-6 will be frozen.

So it will never make sense to get a frozen paper Z1-6 as it is now much more expensive than the daily cap, whereas previously it was the same price as the peak cap.

iAMaLONDONER

silvercar wrote: »

So it will never make sense to get a frozen paper Z1-6 as it is now much more expensive than the daily cap, whereas previously it was the same price as the peak cap.

Of course, TfL are trying to stop people paying with cash!