21.08.13
Paperless move for London Overground
Travelcards on London Overground will now be Oyster-only, TfL has announced.
Seven-day or longer Travelcards will no longer be sold as paper tickets at London Overground stations, “to improve convenience, security and flexibility”. Paper season tickets were withdrawn from London Underground in 2005.
Daily Travelcards and point-to-point tickets will still be available in paper form, and existing paper season Travelcards will be accepted until they expire.
Shashi Verma, TfL’s director of customer experience, said: “Oyster is already the ticket of choice for more than 85% of our customers and bringing all season Travelcards on to Oyster means more people will benefit from its security, flexibility and convenience.
“Paper season Travelcards have not been available at Tube ticket offices for a number of years now and so it makes sense to bring London Overground into line with our operations on the rest of the network.”
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