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Water way to pay for river travel
Customers travelling on river bus services can now pay as they go using contactless payments.
Already popular on bus, Tube, tram and most National Rail services into London, the payment method can now be used on all MBNA Thames Clippers River Bus routes, which cover around 28km of the Thames between Putney and Woolwich Arsenal.
Journeys using contactless payments cost adults the same as using an Oyster card. Travel is charged according to three river zones - west, central and east.
Customers touch in on the card reader with a contactless payment card or mobile device and then touch out again at the end of the journey, or when changing boats.
The introduction of contactless payments is just one of a number of developments we have introduced to encourage more use of the river and increase the number of passenger journeys along the Thames to 12million a year by 2020.
A range of improvements have been made in recent years, including changes to the look of the piers, improved signs and better provision of live River Bus information. Also, two piers are being extended at Bankside and Westminster to boost capacity and allow more boats to call there.
Around 500,000 journeys have been made along the Thames using Oyster pay as you go since it was introduced on MBNA Thames Clippers River Bus services last September.
- For more information on our river services, visit tfl.gov.uk/river
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