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London Travelcard pricey?
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Is it becoming too expensive to travel by public transport? Since the London Travelcard was first introduced in 1981 the cost of a zone 1-6 one day pass has risen to £7.50. Whilst commuters can be asked to pay £1472 for an annual zone 1-4 travelcard to work
Do people still find it handy to buy a one day pass say for weekend day/night outs?
Prices just gone up!
Do people still find it handy to buy a one day pass say for weekend day/night outs?
Prices just gone up!
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Yeah its expensive, but are average wages in london higher for a reason? £7.50 beats walking.
If Boris Johnson is serious about getting Londoners to spend us out of recession then travelling shouldn't be so prohibitively expensive.
How about another 1980s style borough council funded fares reduction on London's public transport? this time follow or change the rules so it's legal
It's a bit of a non-issue to me tbh.
Where do you suggest the money comes from, to fund this?
as previously said, regular users would have an Oyster Card, Non regular users who commute would usually get it with a train ticket, the only numptys who would pay the £7.50 are people like myself who would park/leave the car at the station on the outskirts and grab a ticket, and heck £7.50 is not A HELL of a lot for traveling around london,
For me from my home town, with a YP's railcard, the price of a ticket to central London is £7.25. Combined with a travelcard (zones 1-6) on top of that its £10.35. To be able to get into, around, and back from London (offpeak though) for just over a tenner is pretty good IMHO.
In my area, to get a bus from home to the next town, where I go to school (maybe 4 miles), it costs around a fiver for a return. So if I was going to rant about transport, it would be on that :razz:
I do too.
My weekly Oyster pass is £29 so a little over £4 a day. Not a massive expenditure.
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Neither - I work for TfL
The buses run regularly and the only time I've seen the tube really stupidly I-can't-even-get-on-a-train busy is when you expect it to be - rush hour, weekends and public holidays/summer/christmas period.
I think for going round London all day taking as many forms of transport you want as many times as you need, £7.50 is a pretty good deal.
But bus fares are cheap. It costs £1 to go from anywhere to anywhere. Yet when I used to pay bus fares in Plymouth, it would cost me anything up to £2 a time. That was just to get from the hospital into town - a 20 minute bus ride.
What one person can do in a day is limited, for getting about the Travelcard is convenient and a good deal but still not a dirt-cheap good deal. When the scheme was launched in the 1980s it was innovative and a big money saver, but fares inflation has eroded the gain for passengers
If someone is lonely and bored however, an all zone one day Travelcard to cruise the city's bus/tube and suburban trains is excellent, especially if you set out at dawn and back home at night!
I used to do that
Rush hour overcrowding is going to happen no matter what. If you have a huge amount of people all trying to get on one train then there's going to be overcrowding. I haven't really had a lot of problems with signalling delays enough for it to be considered "at breaking point" and to be honest, I would much rather be on a slightly delayed tube that's going a bit slow than sit in London traffic at rush hour. Maybe that's just me.
I still think the travel card is pretty nifty.
Exactly, I may not like the fact that my season pass keeps going up but I really have no other reasonable option to get to work or out and about in London.
When I was in Kingston it was horrible... To get a travel card from there to London is around £200 a month! So it's so hard if you jump right from a low income job to getting work in central... If you're on the dole and have an interview which requires on peak travel, you can pay up to £18 for an on peak travel card.
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It's really expensive for me. I'm going to London for a few days in a couple of weeks and the transport costs are really going to hurt me.
I live in Istanbul and a single public transport ride here is 1.50TL, which is about 60p, and any transfer within 30 minutes is half that. Prices are also halved on public holidays. I know it's not a useful comparison but to pay so much more in London and even all of England seems so expensive!
I would also assume that the average wage in Istanbul is below that of London so the comparison isnt really fair. Getting a cab around South Africa is really cheap, but then wages there are really low.
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Cycling is also a good option. People don't seem to realise that as well as London being relatively flat (compared to, say, Bristol) there is pretty good cycling infrastructure. It may not be Amsterdam, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.