00:00Hello and welcome to your latest Transport Roundup.
00:07The cost of applying for a free travel card for older Londoners is set to almost double.
00:13Transport for London has announced that the fee to obtain a 60 plus Oyster card will rise from ÂŁ20 to ÂŁ35.
00:21Additionally, the annual eligibility check and administrative requirement to maintain the benefit will increase from ÂŁ10 to ÂŁ18.
00:30The 60 plus Oyster card is considered one of the most valuable benefits for older Londoners.
00:36It provides free weekday travel on all TfL services after 9am and free national rail travel within Greater London after 9.30am and unrestricted access on weekends.
00:49These new charges will come into effect on Tuesday, July the 22nd and will be reviewed annually going forward.
00:57TfL stated that these are the first increases in over a decade and explained that they are necessary due to broader financial pressures facing the capital's Transport Authority.
01:11Now, in separate transport developments, a reduced Docklands Light Railway, also known as the DLR timetable, has been introduced.
01:20This follows delays to a new fleet of trains that were originally scheduled for rollout in April 24.
01:27But as a result, there will be no DLR services running between Becton and Hanningtown or Stratford International.
01:36Stuart Harvey, TfL's Chief Capital Officer, explained that the short term timetable changes were necessary because the agency needed to start retiring some of its oldest trains, many of which date back to the 1990s.
01:51TfL plan to introduce 54 new air condition trains by the end of next year.
02:00And then rail services between parts of Essex and London have moved into public ownership. Operator C2C, which manages routes between London Fenchurch Street and South Essex, was nationalised earlier this month.
02:16The Department for Transport confirmed that previously purchased tickets would obviously still be valid and added that fares would not be changing as a direct result of the transfer.
02:28Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander stated that passengers had been facing spiralling costs and that public ownership was already helping to address long standing issues such as fragmentation and waste within the network.
02:46She said the goal was to build a unified national rail system under Great British Railways, one brand with a single mission to deliver excellent service to passengers across the whole country.
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