To be honest, I’m looking forward to the day TfL expands into Leicestershire – sod contactless, I just want one bus pass to cover all busses.
Hell will freeze over before such heretical suggestions as one travel card for bus AND train becomes a thing here. I’d joke its like 1950s here, but frankly if it was, we would have better public transport!
Contactless pay as you go can be used on both GWR and TfL Rail services between Reading and London Paddington already.
>IanVisits
Gosh there is a bit of a blast from the proverbial past!
We have contactless payments on busses here where I live.
West country ~ish
Basically the whole c2c line would be covered by this. They must be pissed at the idea given iirc they would only receive a subsidy from the fare revenue rather than the full ticket revenue if you paid through then direct.
Just zone the whole country already and implement exactly what tfl has everywhere. It’s clearly working for London: research done – rest of tbe country has a failed system.
> Due to the older technology used, the expansion will not include Oyster cards, just the newer bank card-based contactless payments. That mirrors the way the Elizabeth line was extended to Reading, with Oyster only working as far as the edge of Zone 6, after which only bank card contactless will work.
It’s nice to know there are plans to add railcards to contactless payments though (from what I get reading this article)
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To be honest, I’m looking forward to the day TfL expands into Leicestershire – sod contactless, I just want one bus pass to cover all busses.
Hell will freeze over before such heretical suggestions as one travel card for bus AND train becomes a thing here. I’d joke its like 1950s here, but frankly if it was, we would have better public transport!
Contactless pay as you go can be used on both GWR and TfL Rail services between Reading and London Paddington already.
>IanVisits
Gosh there is a bit of a blast from the proverbial past!
We have contactless payments on busses here where I live.
West country ~ish
Basically the whole c2c line would be covered by this. They must be pissed at the idea given iirc they would only receive a subsidy from the fare revenue rather than the full ticket revenue if you paid through then direct.
Just zone the whole country already and implement exactly what tfl has everywhere. It’s clearly working for London: research done – rest of tbe country has a failed system.
> Due to the older technology used, the expansion will not include Oyster cards, just the newer bank card-based contactless payments. That mirrors the way the Elizabeth line was extended to Reading, with Oyster only working as far as the edge of Zone 6, after which only bank card contactless will work.
It’s nice to know there are plans to add railcards to contactless payments though (from what I get reading this article)