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Caroline Pidgeon highlights Oyster “cash mountain”

So, Transport for London has £321 million of our money and is keeping quiet about it. Lib Dem Assembly Member and former Mayoral Candidate Caroline Pidgeon has made the headlines by uncovering the fact that TfL is sitting on this vast sum of money on Oyster cards which haven’t been used for over a year.

From the BBC:

Ms Pidgeon, chair of City Hall’s transport committee, put the “soaring” figure partly down to the number of people switching in recent years to making contactless payments with their bank cards.

She said: “TfL never stops bombarding us with advertisements and information campaigns,

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  • Jenny Barnes
    Both Ed & Daisy look to be from the Trussite school of economics. Let's have tax cuts, spend more on public services & infrastructure... and a pony. Ho...
  • Tristan Ward
    @Mick Taylor "our current seat strategy could well see us holding the balance of power in 2029" Which is of course what matters more than anything else. ...
  • Phil Wainewright
    I was deeply disappointed. So now we’re a tax-cutting party? What about the dire state of public services? This is exactly the issue I raised in my article at...
  • Graham Evans
    Mick Taylor: The last time we held the balance of power it was a disaster for the party and it has taken us almost a decade to recover and that only in seats, n...
  • Leekliberal
    I agree with David Raw. It's time for Ed Davey to retire....