Now that Transport for London are providing stations between St. Albans and Luton Airport Parkway with a contactless-only version of the Oyster system do they currently have in place any plans to allow attaching a Railcard discount to contactless credit/debit cards?
Currently you can only attach a Railcard discount to an Oyster card, which is fair enough as most stations support the full Oyster system, however soon this won't be the case as many journeys from Luton Airport Parkway and even the western extent of Crossrail / Elizabeth Line won't support Oyster -- instead only supporting contactless credit/debit cards.
This effectively creates a two tier system in which the inhabitants of Radlett can have their 16-25 Railcards, Senior Railcard etc on their tap-in tap-out system but those of us in St. Albans cannot. Not particularly fair and only going to affect more people once the purple line is fully up and running.
If not, would anyone else on the forum be interested in contacting TfL with me to ask for answers about this?
Thanks,
XYZ
Currently you can only attach a Railcard discount to an Oyster card, which is fair enough as most stations support the full Oyster system, however soon this won't be the case as many journeys from Luton Airport Parkway and even the western extent of Crossrail / Elizabeth Line won't support Oyster -- instead only supporting contactless credit/debit cards.
This effectively creates a two tier system in which the inhabitants of Radlett can have their 16-25 Railcards, Senior Railcard etc on their tap-in tap-out system but those of us in St. Albans cannot. Not particularly fair and only going to affect more people once the purple line is fully up and running.
If not, would anyone else on the forum be interested in contacting TfL with me to ask for answers about this?
Thanks,
XYZ