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 stations.
To encourage their take up the Mayor and Transport for London have made paying by cash almost twice as expensive for a lot of journeys as it would be by using the Oyster card. A side benefit for the authorities is they have a nice digital record of when and where Oyster card holders travel. If you want to get an Oyster card the TfL website has a search engine where you just enter the postcode for where ever you are in London and it will give you the address of the nearest shops where you can buy a card.
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This measurement is really welcome, I find the card helpfull even for travellers. It’s one of the best ways to get around as far as I’m consirned. For other travellers passing by here, I found another blog on London, with some good info as well.
http://www.voiceofacity.com/londen/ It has comments of people who live in and visited London, to get some other oppinions..
thanks for the tfl website, though i am not n london yet and so dont have a zip code to enter….
do you sell travel jepacks?
opps!
…for london, or oyster cards?
Thanks
Sorry Sam, if you mean travel packs I don’t think TfL do.
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