Railways: Tickets

(asked on 14th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to roll out Oyster card systems across England and Wales.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 22nd February 2019

Our ambition is to ensure that across regional and urban commuter areas smart ticketing can deliver the kind of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) structure that is used in London, to make journeys easier and smoother for passengers.

Earlier this month I launched a consultation to seek views on how PAYG travel areas could work, the options for changing fares to complement PAYG and the places in the South-East that could be suitable for PAYG, as part of our wider ambition to roll out PAYG. We have also allocated £150m to Transport for the North to deliver their multi-modal smart ticketing programme, which includes PAYG.

The current consultation considers the most appropriate technology for PAYG, but notes that: a) Oyster is built to support a limited number of fares and zones, and so is less suitable further away from London; and b) that it has limited scope to be expanded further without significant modification.

Transport in Wales is a devolved matter.

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