‘I paid for a graduate to get the train for a job interview – now I’m campaigning for them’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/06/i-paid-a-graduate-get-train-a-job-interview-now-im-campaigning-them-24612099/

Oyster card fine you can be given on the Tube if you travel too slowly

TfL has a set journey time for each zone that, if you move too slowly, could land you with a bill

My London
Orrr, #WienerLinien ... Verlängerung der #Öffi-Jahreskarte kommt mit der Aufforderung, auf die digitale Karte umzusteigen, um Plastikmüll zu vermeiden. *schielt auf ihre Jahre alte noch immer funktionierende #OysterCard und die GLS-Bank, die Holzkarten ausgibt* Natürlich kann man die Verantwortung für das eigene Versagen, ein #nachhaltig.es System aufzubauen, auch auf die Kund:innen abwälzen. Das dann mit einem #Appzwang zu koppeln, wo die App Daten an Google & Facebook weitergibt ... just nope.
If you were my #Oystercard , where would you be hiding in between trips to London? 🤔

@mattsches
Das ist ja ein krass innovatives Konzept!

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Habe ich 2014 gedacht, als ich zum ersten Mal mit der #Oystercard durch London gefahren bin. 😂

@wild1145

Interesting way to travel. Are there special Mastodon spaces in the railway station car park? Ride and park, as it were?

Or does it make its own way home?

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#JourneyPlanner #OysterCard

The whole #VoterID roll out here in the #UK, approved by parliament and already in place at the #LocalElections is absolutely scandalous, and it feels like people are not even aware. We have no universal ID scheme here; instead, you can use your passport, driving licence (who has those? not the poorest), or your OVER 60 OYSTER CARD, but NOT the young person's #OysterCard! This is so obviously designed to aid #Tories. We need much, much more outrage about this

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/voter-id/accepted-forms-photo-id?gclid=CjwKCAjw__ihBhADEiwAXEazJunaJ2I94MNdCGOgzT1IRRz3MSQ45JpLPbgvzewotXHtaVLcseFf9xoCKYQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Accepted forms of photo ID

Learn about the different types of photo ID that will be accepted at elections that require photo ID

Long term, they should consider moving to a pay-as-you-go system like the London #OysterCard where you swipe in and out on each leg of your journey and the system gives you the best overall price.

But that requires a lot of expensive infrastructure, and most residents have season tickets anyway, so there’s something to to be said for the simplicity of a flat-rate system—particularly if the rate were zero. (h/t @JoeGrowling)

Every so often the #OysterCard you can use across the country comes up again. This time it’s alongside simplifying fare structures by doing away with discounted return fares.

Truth is that we’ve had the technology to do a countrywide #OysterCard scheme for years - there are smart card readers on the remotest Scottish railway stations, and everyone uses the #ITSO standard for transport smart cards, but the competing transport companies resist interoperability.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/05/return-train-tickets-expected-to-be-scrapped-in-uk-rail-shake-up

Return train tickets expected to be scrapped in UK rail shake-up

The often discounted rate is to be replaced with two singles costing the same as the present return fare

The Guardian