03-05-2025
London's 60+ Oyster card: fair deal or Britain's biggest freebie?
At the Garrick Club, one of London's best-heeled members' societies, a must-have accessory is a free travel pass.
Home to chief executives, senior lawyers and members of the great and good, those turning 60 proudly show off their new 60+ London Oyster photocard, which entitles them to free travel in the capital at all times except the morning rush hour. One regular has apparently taken to enjoying sightseeing bus tours of the West End. The twentysomethings working for the national living wage in the Covent Garden shops around the corner, battling runaway rents and inflation, enjoy no such perks.
London residents get their complimentary ticket to ride around the capital from the age of 60, several years before the state pension age of 66. It
