Last month (April 20th) TfL quietly switched on capping for contactless only stations. I say quietly because with only essential travel being undertaken at the moment it is unlikely that anyone is actually reaching the caps. They also confirmed that since January 2nd 2020 anyone who exceeded the relevant caps from those stations will have received an automatic refund. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has written to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, asking him to reconsider the instruction to remove free bus travel from under 18s. The letter has been made public and is reproduced here. Read the rest of this entry »
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TfL has begun insisting that people touch in when making bus journeys again. From today, those using single door buses and the new Routemaster ‘Boris’ buses which have readers by the middle door will be expected to validate their Oyster or contactless card or device. Other two door buses will follow once modifications to the screen between the driver and the passenger area are complete. These modifications will block the area where cash transactions used to take place and cover the holes for speech between the driver and passengers.
Signs on the doors and announcements will make it clear when passengers are expected to validate their cards again.
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