Thursday October 6, 2005

London Tube and bus set to drop

• Posted by Rob (#1) on October 6, 2005 13:58 CEST

London Tube and bus fares set to rise, panicks the media:

London's Mayor Ken Livingstone said a single Tube journey will cost £3 instead of the current £2 while a single bus journey will increase from the current £1.20 to £1.50.

The mayor announced that the cost of buying pre-paid tickets is to fall.

The so-called Oyster fares will be cut in central London from £1.70 to £1.50, which will be half the cash fare.

On the buses, a cash single will increase from £1.20 to £1.50 in January, while an Oyster fare will be frozen at £1 in the morning peak and 80p at other times.

Aha. So in actuality prices are dropping as the lowest fare possible will be lower than it is now. 50% of Tube users, me included, already have an Oyster card and everyone else is free to get one. It's only the time-consuming cash fares that show an increase in price. Bollocks reporting as usual, then.

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