{"id":2592,"date":"2014-09-16T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:25:59","slug":"london-tube-launches-replacement-for-oyster-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/london-tube-launches-replacement-for-oyster-card\/","title":{"rendered":"London Tube launches &#8216;replacement for Oyster card&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2593\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tube.jpg\" alt=\"Tube\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Thousands of Tube passengers today began using their bank and credit cards to \u201ctouch in\u201d as a new payment system was launched on the London Underground as the long-term replacement for Oyster.<br \/>\nLondon Transport chiefs said the introduction of \u201ccontactless\u201d cards was a world first on public transport. But they declined to set a target for uptake amid suggestions that inertia will mean many passengers will be reluctant to switch.<br \/>\nTransport for London hopes that\u00a0 contactless can boost revenues and reduce the costs of paying a third party to run Oyster.<br \/>\nShashi Verma, TfL\u2019s director of customer experience, said: \u201cWe have not done projections because they are driven by so many factors beyond our control such as how many cards are issued and what\u2019s happening on the national rail network.\u201d But he added: \u201cThe convenience factor is really selling.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/london-tube-launches-replacement-for-oyster-card\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Tube passengers today began using their bank and credit cards to \u201ctouch in\u201d as a new payment system was launched on the London Underground as the long-term replacement for Oyster. London Transport chiefs said the introduction of \u201ccontactless\u201d cards was a world first on public transport. But they declined to set a target &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}