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Originally Posted by Shaun
They're free now so I don't ahve an issue living in Leicester but having a n Oyster card in my wallet for travel in London  |
I understand that, but a casual visitor to the Capital would have to apply weeks in advance to get one.
Over 15m overseas visitors came to London last year, boosting the economy to the tune of £2.3bn a year. That's the same population as the whole of Greater London area plus a bit!
And that's not including the people from this country to like a day out in London every now and then. And there was nearly 11m of those last year too.
So 26m people for whom an Oyster card is pretty useless and being penalised for spending monday in London. Good old Ken!