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Buy Your Travelcard Before Prices Rise In January

Fares go up by an average of 6% on Monday, so buy now to keep 2011 prices for a little bit longer.

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London Transport Fares 2000-2012

Ahead of Mayoral election claims and counter-claims, here’s the actual data on fares since 2000.

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Free Travel For TFL Family, Friends & Flatmates Under Fire

Boris Johnson faced challenges at City Hall yesterday over the TFL employee perk that extends free travel across the network to a family member or nominated partner.

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Buy Now And Beat The New Year TFL Price Hikes

Renew your Travelcard before Sunday to beat the New Year fare increases.

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Fare Rise Misery In Store For Tube Travellers

Photo by Treesiepopsicles It’s been a bad week for tube travellers: on Monday and Tuesday we had an assortment of delays caused by union overtime bans and power cuts which led to a couple of thousand passengers becoming more acquainted with the tunnels than they …

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Oyster Ineptitude

By Randall Murrow Whilst the Oyster PAYG rollout to National Rail was long awaited and much welcomed, news that passengers overpaid around £500,000 in January is not entirely surprising. The BBC report blames user ineptitude, with travellers failing to comply with the touch in, touch …

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Time To Get A Travelcard: Fares Go Up Tomorrow

By Route79 If you don’t want to be immediately hit by the Mayor’s fare hikes then get down your Oyster Point pronto – fare increases kick in tomorrow. Gen up on exactly how this affects you over at London Reconnections or the TFL website. Whilst …

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Numpty Alert

2009 is only two days old and already we have a contender for the most pointlessly attention grabbing statement by an MP. Croydon’s Andrew Pelling is advising anyone who bought a seven-day travelcard over Christmas to apply for a refund. He thinks commuters should be …

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Freedom Piss

Speaking to the summit of London Councils yesterday, our Boris did his bit for older people, perpetuating the idea that everyone over 60 needs to go to the toilet a lot or has problems with their ‘waterworks’ by suggesting that Freedom Passes should grant access …

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New Tube Map Cover To Distract From Travelcard Increases

To brighten up the New Year the tube map has got a new look as of 2 January. Art on the Underground commissioned Cornelia Parker to create the new cover art which is rather like a pretty Rorschasch splodge that looks a bit like a …