LONDON - Get Cheaper Oyster Card with CityMapper
Do you live in London and have a weekly Oyster card?
You can now save money with Citymapper.
Citymapper is a free transport app on your phone (available for Apple iOS and Google Android).
They do their own Citymapper pass card which works on the Transport for London network including London Underground and bus services. It is effectively the same as Oyster.
At the moment, a Zones 1 -2 Weekly Oyster Card costs £35.10 per week. With Citymapper's pass, it costs £31 per week:
When you order it, you receive a physical pass in the post (just like an Oyster):
That's £4.10 cheaper per week totalling £213.20 per year of savings. This is a great way to save automatically.
You can subscribe to the weekly Citymapper pass via the app, pause it whenever you want and cancel it too.
Something else you may not know about Citymapper is that it now has it's own Uber-style car pooling service. It's called Citymapper Ride.
Available only in zones 1-2 in central London, you can book a Citymapper Ride just like Uber. The app says it is a fixed cost of £5, plus £1 for every extra person, however when I tried it the app gave an estimate of £8 (so that's confusing).
You can refer a friend and when they sign up you both get £5 free credit.
Is it usually better to use either contactless or oyster card instead of buying weekly ones because it caps automatically. Does this one cap too or is it just like weekly ones?
Hoping to see this spread to other cities around the world for when I'm travelling. Cheers for sharing
What I am worry about is, I usually buy oyster zone 1-2 but the buses are free for all zones this way. And I live in zone 3, so I take the bus for for free to North Greenwich (zone 2) and I jump in the tube. So if this green card doesn't make the buses free for all zones I don't see how is cheaper ?!
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