One-hour bus tickets proposed for London

Campaigners are trying to persuade the London Mayor to introduce one-hour bus tickets across London.

It is claimed the idea, which already operates successfully in Paris, Rome and Brussels, would be easy to implement and could lead to a shift away from people using their cars for short trips and help to reduce congestion across London.

Liberal Democrat, Caroline Pidgeon said: “You can already switch from tube to tube on the same ticket, so it makes real sense to allow people to do the same with buses.

“It really is unfair that people who use Oyster pay-as-you-go have to pay a new fare every time they change buses.”

A spokesperson for the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) said: “Public transport needs to be as easy to use as possible if it is to offer an attractive alternative to the estimated one million car journeys every day in London are less than one mile in length.”

The average bus journey length in London is 2.2 miles, which is around 9 stops.

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