Well it’s taken long enough for the Greater London Assembly and Transport to London to get their heads around the rail companies and knock sense into them and FINALLY delivered Full Oyster for All Transport for London Network services.
If you’re a visitor to London (or an Oyster PAYG user), you have 3 options at the moment:
- Buy an Oyster Card any pay up for train services excluded by Oyster or
- Buy Paper Travelcards and get stung for the cost of them
- Buy a Weekly ticket and get stung majorly for it.
From the 2nd Jan 2010, this is abolished finally, with the Rail companies getting on board and new London map now available (with the exclusion of Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect between Heathrow Stations and Hayes and Harlington) .
All I can say is this: IT’S TAKEN LONG ENOUGH! It’s going to make travelling in the capital on all forms of transport (Rail, Tube, Bus, Water – even Riverboats are going Oyster) a lot simpler.
