r/TransportForLondon

My wife and I used the over/underground from Clapham Junction to White City, and back but forgot to tap back off using our Apple Pay at Clapham Junction before leaving the Station (using our Southern Rail ticket). We were charged £14.90 each. How likely that any kind of refund could be offered to both of us?

Thanks!

What's happening in the past month? Too many train delays, red signals, blah blah. Sort it out. One of the wealthiest country in the world and the train service is trash 🗑️.

My friend who is a very close friend of mine has asked me to be a character reference because he has a fare evasion case with TfL. I really want to help since he’s a good friend and I have a few questions if anyone has provided a character reference for a fare evasion case with TfL, could you help me out? What specific details did you include in your reference? Did TfL actually verify them, or was there any follow-up or official check from TfL? I just want to make sure I include the right information.

If someone has done it please reply really appreciate it

Thanks

Bringing my elderly mother into London in a few weeks. She's not great on escalators (vertigo/balance issues) and we need to use Clapham South Station. Is the underground very deep there and are there any stairs to use as an alternative?

Just come back from Finsbury Parkrun on the 19 which (along with the 38) was terminating at the top of Rosebery Avenue because of demos in central London. Walked past two bus stops where groups of people (mainly tourists) were waiting. The displays were showing live times for the 19 and 38, as was Google Maps (although with a 'modified service' alert which you have to click on to read). The display on the 19 I was on showed it to be terminating at Rosebery Avenue, so the system knows this, so why can't TfL remove the live times from the stops which aren't served and transmit this info to Google Maps?

I stopped and explained this to the people waiting and suggested they walk to Farringdon and get the tube, but it's very poor in my opinion not to use the system in place to display up-to-date information. Does anyone have any idea why it doesn't happen?

I just find it annoying and unfair seeing passengers exit Transport for London stations, especially the Underground and Overground, without tapping and instead forcing their way through the barriers without being apprehended.

The most annoying part is that staff are there turning a blind eye and not doing anything about it.

We’re paying religiously and never miss paying the fare, while there they are getting free transport around London.

Last week I posted about Tubed — the daily Tube puzzle where you build the fastest route between two stations and get scored against the optimal. A lot of you played it and gave some great feedback!

I've since gone back and rebuilt big chunks of it. Headline changes:

Interchange times are much improved: Every line-change at every station now uses real walking times.

Bank ↔ Monument is a proper cross-walk: You can change between them as part of your route and it's costed accurately per line pair, the way it actually works in real life.

Out-of-station interchanges added: You can now walk between nearby station pairs as part of your route, all timed accurately. Most pertinent ones added.

Massive network data audit: A bunch of branches were wrong.

Results screen shows the maths: Your route and the optimal route are both displayed leg-by-leg with explicit interchange times. No more "why is my score what it is" - you can see exactly where the time went.

Still a single HTML file, still no backend, still free. New puzzle every day at midnight, same one for everyone.

Still probably loads of bugs to squash let me know what you think!

Give it a go here:

playtubed.co.uk

me (19) and my boyfriend (18) are going to London for 7 days, we wil stay near the station of east croydon. since we are going to the centre of London a lot and also wanna visit the coast and maybe camebridge we are gonna use public transportation a lot! I saw some options online, but find it hard to decide which one is the cheapest. I thought about getting a 7 day zone 1-5 card, but I dont know if I need an oyster card or can get a paper ticket. I also saw a two together railcard for 1/3 off, or a card which can only be used to go from east Croydon to London.

https://preview.redd.it/tmf8edi5fk0h1.png?width=1037&format=png&auto=webp&s=5324411b50fe6f2be54a4dba52fc78d7fa4835ac

a Crossrail serving south london to central which is highly underserved and then branching to h21 to rochester and to Cambridge and oxford for commuting to make sure that oxford and cambridge are 45 mins to London on a express train

I estimate it would cost from 28.5 billion to 100 billion and would need to get ECTS 2 upgrades however it would create a huge knowledge triangle between oxford Cambridge and London integrating with the east west line and also increasing property prices and create more commuters

Uses dual voltage semi high-speed capable trains and btw just idea would love to know your thoughts on it

Hi everyone,

I’m currently visiting London as a tourist from another country and I found myself in a difficult situation and could really use some advice.

I found an Oyster card on the ground. I didn’t realise at the time that it was registered and linked to someone else’s railcard. Since I needed to get around the city, I topped it up with my own money and used it to travel.

I was then checked by a TfL inspector, and they told me I will be receiving a letter regarding the incident.

I want to be clear that I genuinely topped the card up with my own money — I wasn’t trying to travel for free. I simply didn’t know I wasn’t allowed to use a found card, especially one I had put my own credit on. I’m a tourist and was not familiar with the rules around Oyster cards and railcard discounts.

My questions are:

•How serious is this? Could this lead to a criminal charge or just a fine?

•Should I respond to the letter when it arrives and explain my situation honestly?

•Does the fact that I topped up the card with my own money make any difference legally?

•As a foreign tourist, what are the potential consequences for me?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I feel terrible about this and it was a genuine mistake.

I live in Brighton and I go uni in Brighton and I always travel to London to visit my brother or going to central London ! Am I am not sure if I am eligible for it or not ?

Hi everyone, I need some advice about multiple PCN tickets I received in London.

I got around 8 PCNs in the same week for taking a “no right turn” road. I genuinely did not see the sign at the time, otherwise I would never have continued doing the same turn repeatedly. By the time the first ticket arrived, I had already unknowingly driven through there multiple times.

Has anyone been in a similar situation before? Is there any chance councils reduce or cancel some of the tickets when they all happened before you were aware of the restriction?

I’m thinking of appealing based on unclear signage and the fact that all the tickets happened within a short period before I even knew there was an issue. Any advice would really help.