Commuters in London will be able to use their contactless payment cards to pay for their travel fares on Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground and National Rail services from today. The new technology will work the same way as the existing pre-payment Oyster travel card service, by ‘tapping’ the contactless enabled payment card against the…
Transport for London (TFL) has today advised the public that their network of buses will stop accepting cash payments from Sunday 6th July 2014. Instead, pre-paid Oyster cards or contactless payment cards can be swiped against on-board card readers, and Travelcards continue to be available. Related stories: London buses to stop using use cash Source: Transport…
Transport for London (TFL) has announced that London buses will no longer accept cash payments from this summer, though the exact date is yet to be confirmed. Contactless payments using cards were first introduced in December 2012 and since its introduction there has been a steady increase in the number of contactless payment transactions. Currently,…
The UK’s Transport for London (TFL) has announced that the use of contactless credit, debit or charge cards will be available on the tube, Docklands Light Railway (DLR), trams and London Overground rail services by early 2014. The payment cards will be used in the same way as the current Oyster card system, where users hold…