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When did TfL start contactless payment?

On this day in 2012, a revolution began when London's buses started accepting contactless payment for fares. A decade later, contactless payments make up over two-thirds of pay as you go fares on London's buses, and over 2.5 billion journeys have been paid for this way.



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