Cash payments to be reinstated at Tube stations

[capitalomnibus]

Cash payments to be reinstated at Tube stations
TfL will reinstate the ability to pay with cash at its stations following a successful campaign by a travel watchdog.
www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/19390438.cash-payments-reinstated-tube-stations/


A figure as high as 7% shows it is still a high amount. I wonder how much the buses would have been. I know people have been alienated from buses in London because of this. The general thing is everyone has a card and everyone has a smartphone. This is the approach TfL have been dictating and it is no wonder they have been losing customers with their one size fits all approach.

[greenboy]

Jun 24, 2021 0:22:56 GMT capitalomnibus said:

Cash payments to be reinstated at Tube stations
TfL will reinstate the ability to pay with cash at its stations following a successful campaign by a travel watchdog.
www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/19390438.cash-payments-reinstated-tube-stations/


A figure as high as 7% shows it is still a high amount. I wonder how much the buses would have been. I know people have been alienated from buses in London because of this. The general thing is everyone has a card and everyone has a smartphone. This is the approach TfL have been dictating and it is no wonder they have been losing customers with their one size fits all approach.

I hadn't realised that cash payment had been suspended at tube stations, all NR stations readily accept cash as far as I'm aware.

[rugbyref]

On Sunday our route 9 LT was delayed while a lady tried to pay for herself and her teenage daughter using her only bank card. How can it be beyond the IT capabilities of TFL to programme the machinery to deduct a double fare from a single card if the passenger requests this of the driver?

[WH241]

Jun 24, 2021 15:56:08 GMT rugbyref said:

On Sunday our route 9 LT was delayed while a lady tried to pay for herself and her teenage daughter using her only bank card. How can it be beyond the IT capabilities of TFL to programme the machinery to deduct a double fare from a single card if the passenger requests this of the driver?

I know this really is annoying. A few weeks ago I took my nephew out and he never had a Zip card so I had to use my debit card and a credit card, it really is madness.