London Banter - TfL Fares Increase January 2013

On 24/10/2012 14:31, Paul Scott wrote:

"Paul" wrote:
Does anyone know whether the details of next year's fares increase
have been announced yet?

If not, when is it likely to be anonunced?

Usually at the beginning of December in the last few years...

It was later than normal in 2010 because it was all enmeshed with the
new government's Comprehensive Spending Review and TfL's funding
settlement, then it was late last year (2011) because Chancellor Osborne
capped rail and (by association) TfL fares rather late in the day.
(Actually the Mayor's office announced the un-amended 2012 fares first
before Osborne's announcement, and then obviously had to go back on them.)

Of course Osborne recently announced another fares cap (inc. TfL fares)
again for next year (2013), in a change to the long term plan, but it
wasn't last minute like last year, so the announcement should - or at
least could - be sooner rather than later.

And if you want to buy an annual Travelcard at the old prices, don't do
what my friend did and have such a good old lie-in on New Year's day
that he then had to rush around with a foggy head in the late afternoon
finding a Tube station ticket office that was open (buying via Oyster
online only works for tickets that start the next day, at the new price!).