In a move expected to make Transport for London’s pay-as-you-go model even more dominant and further erode support for season tickets and other period travel passes, the agency today said it will introduce weekly fare capping for PAYG transactions with its closed-loop Oyster card on rail and Underground trips starting Monday–years after it began supporting the feature for open-loop contactless payments.
Transport for London already was supporting weekly capping for Oyster on London buses and trams, a feature it introduced in 2018. Both Oyster and contactless cards and NFC wallets already support daily capping across all transport modes, as well.
The transit agency has been promoting the pay-as-you-go model for years and said today that just under 80% of trips on its large Underground network, the “Tube,” are pay as you go, with the remainder season tickets, passes and single-trips tickets.