[HL33tibCe7]

I don't live in London, but most people I've talked to who do don't have any monthly transport pass or anything like that. They just tap in with contactless. The transport is cheap enough that if you don't travel many times per day, there is really no need. As one example - a bus journey is 1.75 GBP regardless of the distance and number of individual buses taken, as long as all initial tap-ins are within one hour.

Looking at the TfL website, people on benefits get 50% rate discounts; students get 30% off; pensioners and children get completely free travel. It's really quite a good system actually.

[cutler]

Not so fast. Contactless accounts for a huge volume of compensation claims due to faulty or badly-designed interchanges. I've lost count of the number of times my partner has been overcharged when travelling from Wimbledon to Waterloo.

[shamiln]

Is your partner not following the signs saying where to tap in?

[cutler]

Been there. Done that. Even the guards admit it's unreliable.