06/07/2014 BBC London News

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London's buses have stopped accepting cash.

It's a move which'll save Transport for London millions

of pounds a year, although they say only a small percentage of Londoners

Most already use Oyster and other cards.

But that hasn't stopped some from expressing their concerns.

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No longer can we jump on a London bus and pay with cash.

Now you need an Oyster card, a prepaid or concessionary ticket

Transport for London says over 99% of passengers already pay in one

But according to residents in East Dulwich today, the new rule is

A lady got on the bus when we was at Herne Hill, and she couldn't get on

the bus because she wanted to pay cash, and he said they are no longer

taking cash, so she had to get off because she had no Oyster card.

Why shouldn't you be able to pay cash?

It's a good idea, because people go on the bus

and never have change, but they always have an argument with

TfL says it has put measures in place to help.

We have put in One More Journey so if you have an Oyster card

but not enough for a bus journey, but have a zero balance, you can

make one more journey, and that has been used by a million people

There are fears it is not always easy to top up an Oyster card,

and that vulnerable people could be left stranded.

Transport for London really have to make sure that first of all there

are lots of places where you can top up your Oyster card, to increase the

number of them, and second, they must make sure that drivers won't

leave vulnerable passengers, perhaps late night because they have

lost their Oyster card or haven't any money to top it up.

There is an element of inevitability about this change.

Given that a single bus trip in the capital has been costing ?2.14

TfL says that not handling cash will save ?24 million a year,

which it plans to reinvest in improving the capital's transport.

An IT engineer has been charged with murder after a stabbing

20-year-old Terae Eusebe will appear in court accused

of killing a Lithuanian man in Hendon on Thursday.

Three teenagers arrested after the death are

For years, businesses, politicians and Londoners generally

have debated whether the Thames needs a new bridge or bridges to

Well, that debate will start again this week as plans

But a new ?garden bridge? is also being

Here's our political editor, Tim Donovan.

East London has two tunnels, Blackwall and Rotherhithe,

and a boat, the Woolwich Ferry, but no bridge.

The first serious attempt to build one at Galleons Reach was thwarted

Plans for the Thames Gateway Bridge were promoted by Ken Livingstone,

but rejected by a planning inspector.

Boris Johnson originally rejecting the idea too,

but now seems to have changed his mind, as new proposals emerged this

We all know we can actually build bridges.

It is the planning and consultation process which is difficult.

That is why we need to emphasise the benefits this bridge will bring.

And Labour are pledging once again to build a new bridge.

The case for a bridge in terms of being able to sustain housing

and economic development in East London is overwhelmingly strong and

And there is support for more crossings

from the celebrity behind a proposed new garden bridge for London.

If you can't get across the Thames, you either get stuck in one

of those tunnels, or you have got to wake your way

extremely far east to go over one bridge or clog up London both south

and north making your back to try to fight your way across.

On the London cable car, one figure says his opposition to

The bridge on the south side, the traffic would be flowing over

the bridge and going up roads that simply can't take it.

It would be ten times the volume of traffic.

Tomorrow, Transport for London start consulting again on the plans

Historically, we were promoting one crossing across in the vicinity

We are promoting a series of crossings now.

People do want a series of crossings.

But who knows when a decision will come?

Time now for the weather forecast from Georgina.

Good evening. A few showers around, but are largely clear night tonight.

It will feel fresher and much more comfortable altogether. Tomorrow

could be a fairly fine day for many. Temperatures are at it much where

they should be that this time of year. But there are one or two

showers around, and they could be fairly sharp as well. As we head

through the week, a mixture of sunshine and showers. But on

Thursday, heavy rain pushing through.

I'll be back at a quarter to eleven on BBC One with our next news.

Hello again. Today's big event was certainly blessed by fine weather,

but there has been some rain around here and there. Those showers will

continue to drift further east over the next few hours, but by and

large, they should become more confined to western areas. These are

the sorts of temperatures we will see in towns and cities. We have to

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