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Good afternoon,
So today I discovered that there is not a weekly cap if you use buses only with a Bus and Tram discount associated with your Oyster card.There is a daily cap of £2.55 but it doesn’t cap at the weekly rate of £12.30
Whereas on a normal Oyster card it caps at £5.25 a day and also caps at £24.70 for the week.
This is useful information to know as if you know you’ll cap at £2.55 for more than five days it’s cheaper to buy a weekly pass!
Chris
Hi Chris,
So, are you saying that there is a bus and tram discount which can be loaded on a normal adult Oyster card, which is different to the bus and tram discount photocard? The photocard certainly seems to have a weekly cap according to https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares/bus-and-tram-fares.
It’s the discount that is applied to a normal Oyster card when you have the photocard
The link to the fares mentions the price for a weekly bus/tram ticket at £12.30 but if you use it as PAYG from Monday to Sunday then it doesn’t cap at £12.30 – I myself have spent £12.70 from Monday to today half expecting my last fare today on the 428 to be 45p but instead charged the normal 85p.I haven’t used any other modes of transport to muddy the waters and potentially confuse the system.
I notice on the normal fares where it caps at £5.25 a day that it does have a specific column for the weekly Monday to Sunday cap which matches that of the price of a weekly pass but this column isn’t there for the discounted rate.
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