Assembly motion calls for one-hour bus ticket across city

22 October 2009

The London Assembly has agreed a motion calling on the mayor to explore a proposal to introduce a ‘one-hour bus ticket’ to be available on ‘pay-as-you-go’ Oyster Card.

The proposal would enable passengers to use more than one bus during a 60-minute period, without paying more than £1.

Caroline Pidgeon AM, who proposed this week’s original motion said: ‘Passengers can already switch from Tube train to Tube train on the same ticket, so it makes real sense to allow people to do the same with buses.

‘It really is unfair that people who use Oyster pay-as-you-go have to pay a new fare every time they change buses. One-hour bus tickets already operate successfully in Paris, Rome and Brussels. It is now time that London caught up and gave bus-users a fair deal.’

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