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Oyster On South West Trains In Jeopardy

November 12th, 2008 6 Comments

Heads up (via London Reconnections and commentor Mark Lee) on a interesting developing story - Oyster PAYG integration on South West Trains (one of the really big PAYG-free areas that Boris pretty much has to get signed up in order to fulfill his commitment) apparently depends on a franchise agreement with the DfT that releases [...]

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Bad News Buried Under TfL’s PR Blizzard

November 12th, 2008 1 Comment

A few days ago my TfL RSS reader went berserk.  On the 3rd November Boris, or minions of Boris, issued a self-congratulatory press release to every borough in the city extolling the extension of Oyster-selling shops.  This was followed a couple of days later by a puff piece aimed at every point of the compass [...]

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