Articles tagged ‘Oyster card’
Oyster cards on your mobile
By Chris | November 28th, 2007 |
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Like the sound of having your Oyster card on your mobile phone so you won’t have to carry the plastic card around with you? Well it could soon be happening because phone company O2 are trialling a new system called the O2 Wallet using an adapted Nokia mobile phone that will let 500 of their [...]
Oyster Card updates
By Chris | October 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The are a couple of stories in the news today relating to the prepay Oyster card used by millions of people in London when travelling on buses or the London Underground.
The price of a single bus or tram journey when paying by Oyster card has dropped from £1 to 90p, a rare cut in pricing [...]
Where to get your Oyster card
By Chris | July 31st, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The number of places in London where you can buy Oyster cards is going to double in the next year according to the Mayor. The pre-pay cards let you add money or travelcards onto them and you touch in and out on a card reader when using a bus or entering and leaving Underground [...]
Oyster card problems on the trains
By Chris | January 10th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Mayor of London and TfL(Transport for London) are at loggerheads with the surface train operating companies because of their refusal to accept pre-pay Oyster cards as payment on their systems.
The Oyster card was introduced three years ago and the Mayor has been hailing its success, saying 10million cards have been issued and that 75% [...]
Fare hikes for London’s transport
By Chris | January 3rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Starting the New Year as he means to go on, the Mayor of London has jacked up the price of fares on London’s buses and Underground system for people who are paying cash for single journeys.
If you want to go even one stop on the Tube now and go to buy a ticket for that [...]
