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Old Feb 20, 2009, 4:23 am
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Originally Posted by stut
The London night bus network is excellent - when I used to live down that way, I had 10 buses an hour to get me home, all through the night, all for £1.

(Although it was more fun to cycle back through deserted streets... London is so much nicer when it's free of traffic...)
It was even better until the beginning of this year, all Oyster bus fares were 90p day or night making my commute to work just £1.80 return. £2 still ain't too bad either.

I consider it a myth that public transport within London (maybe except the HEX) is overpriced as long as you use oyster. Of course the press (particularly the Evening Standard during election time) liked to use the cash fares, particularly on pointless tube journeys such as Covent Garden to Leicester Square, to show how expensive it is.

The cash fares were artificially inflated to encourage usage of oyster which really shouldn't be a problem for anyone as they're easy to obtain and there's plenty of information located in main tube stations.
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