Should you buy a travelcard or pay as you go?

31 May 2011

Oyster card — Image caption,
It might be cheaper to buy a Travelcard than sticking to Pay As You Go

Transport correspondent, London

Here's an update on the story I did a while ago about thousands of us not buying the cheapest tickets on the Tube, buses and DLR.

The blogger @Improbulus, external sent me a link to her site where she's created a simple tool, external that works out which tickets you should be buying if you travel in Zone 1 and 2.

The problem, of course, is that it's tricky to know in an advance how many TfL, external journeys you are going to take over the next 12 months.

I can't vouch for the mathematics but the tool does at least raise the issue - again - that sometimes it's cheaper to buy a weekly, monthly or annual Travelcard.