My bad!, haven't come back to this Thread again since my last comment before, lol.

Thanx for your replies anyway, I've now seen them. :-)

And to answer your previous question, I've no idea who Sponsored the free TFL freebie for 23:45pm-04:30am on 31st December 2016 to 1st January 2017?, I didn't check prior? (and now a few days 'after' the event, I have no clue again?, hehehe).

Enlighten us?. :-)

haha pretty much all of that.
plus overpriced everything

You didn't come back and answer my previous post so will tell you. Nobody as well as 2014 and 2015.

Government subsidies would not come into it as tfl is the responsibility of The London Greater Council under the stewardship of The Mayor of London.

Interesting to see so many people saying London's underground system isn't that great compared to many other cities around the world. To some extent, I agree, but to be fair - many of those cities did not have a system like this even 50 years ago. London had one 150 years ago and that also brings in many limitations on growth; it has had to grow with what it already had. Yes, its also expensive but that is because of government subsidies elsewhere. So kudos to what London has achieved.

So who is sponsoring it this year?

London Transport's receiving hand is much larger than their giving one

This New Year's Eve Travel freebie is ALWAYS 'Sponsored' on a Yearly basis by someone/somebody? (Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci, Wonga, etc, etc, etc?).

So, however anyone chooses to look at it, it is actually being paid for by somebody, somewhere ...

Just about sums it all up.

This story needs lots more details.
Is it just the travelling experience, with all the drunk revellers shouting, laughing obnoxiously loudly, pushing, shoving, puking, or is it the let-down of the countdown, where you're huddled in with an army of strangers for a few minutes of nice fireworks, immediately followed by the depressing comedown as the crowd deflatedly disperses?

I'm not sure I agree with that!

Spot on :grin:

You have never actually travelled the tube on New Years Eve have you.?

What a fantastic thing to do to help keep people safe!

awesome deal

Glad people will be safe

Just why exactly is the tube not operating a 24 hour service like usual on weekends?

what's all the excitement? the trains are utterly rammed to an inhumane level on NYE night, it'd be shocking if they actually made you pay for it.

You won't see the New York fireworks from London.oO

Your TV is probably the best place! :smile:

Primrose hill, hamsptead heath, blackheath. Millennium/lambeth/london bridges. Also some of the embankment but not sure what's open. Maybe some of the bits near city of London like Momument/Canon street way.

The worst transport ever

any alternate location to have the best view of the NY fireworks than the paid ticket option?

​u can get great deals on planes from there in Ryanair

wile lot of use for me in northern ireland

Er, there are actually quite a few undergrounds that are similar or surpass the London one. Hong Kong, Japan, China, all have superior/more extensive/both networks than London.

Er, there are actually quite a few undergrounds that are similar or surpass the London one. Hong Kong, Japan, China, all have superior/more extensive/both networks than London.

nope they take someone elses moped.

Not overstated as it states in the OP's header tfl.

Hats off to the fact they are very highly paid. Hats off

Slightly overstated deal. Not "free travel on all London transport". Taxi's, Hire Cars, Flights not included.

There's no other underground like it? You are right, there isn't. It pales in comparison to other countries metro systems in almost every metric. Shanghai and Beijing has almost 100miles of extra track (250 vs 350) compared to London and more than twice the users.

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I'm working on NYE, first time I'm rostered to work on NYE in 12 years. :disappointed:

​Not really a 'Glass Half Full' kind of a guy are you.

From 23.45? Most people will already have the ticket by this time. To get to City you need a ticket which is valid till 4am anyway. Not a big of a deal. 30 minutes extra.

I'm a Londoner whose lived near Cardiff for the past 20+ years. I go back to London to visit friends, & take my kids to 'the old haunts' / sightseeing trips etc..as often as I can (once or twice a year if lucky!). I'm probably gonna be on my own with this one, but I love the tube and always have...I'd no idea though that they offered free travel over late NYE/Day. Like most of the U.K. I'm not in London for NYE but I don't think it's worth quibbling about this deal being in the right place or not. It's ONCE a year and it's clearly going to help lots of others. I hope it stays in deals just so as many people as possible can benefit. HOT from me btw OP :smile:

No. There is not. The tube is over 150 years old - it started with steam trains. There is no other underground like it in South East Asia. You're wrong on almost every single level, unless you refer to cities like Hongkong which have a handful of lines (the Hongkong island line running every 8mins or less at 6.30am! - like to see such irregular trains on the [24h at weekends] Victoria line!) - and let's not forget even at 9pm on a Thursday you can be queuing for fifteen mins at admiralty station platform to change trains. You're plain incorrect

Quite a fair few Northerners on here with negative comments towards living in the South East.

And you lot complain it's always the South doing the slating X)

Good to know, never taken advantage

Even on the Andover is that?

This freebie has been free for a number of year's now?.

Can't remember when it started exactly?, but, it's at least 10 year's old now? (if i'm not mistaken ...) :-)

good deal for once from LU !

Hahahahahahahaha.



By all mean's, feel free to use the free Islington Chauffeur as mentioned above then?, problem solved!, loooool. ;-)

a free mugging with each journey

Aleppo?... say thanks to USA and Britain making mess around the world

Not living in Aleppo saves us all from the daily hell they have to endure there, but it's not really the point, is it?

Not living in London saves me much more than for free bus or tube drive

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the above is obviously false. Everyone in Islington gets their chauffeur to take them home.

Plenty in the south east asian cities.

No its you i just checked :stuck_out_tongue:

​There's always one, and it looks like it's you.

Considering the complexity of tfl and the many card variants plus the no cash policy this is a great help to the many visitors to London for this period. gotta vote hot whoever pays for this and I don't care where it is posted for the information given.

I've worked New Years before, remember to be grateful to anyone you encounter working that night, because it really sucks working, and seeing everyone else having fun. :disappointed:

Well we can't use our own tax money - the entire south doesn't pay any in all likelihood of your world of sweeping generalisations.

Same every year just a heads up not a deal is it !

"Just walk on". No possible prospect of terrorist activity there, then. *Eff that* for a game of soldiers.

Don't know where you get your info from - but tube workers do not get a £500 bonus for working NYE - the drivers & station staff working the shift as extra get extra but no where near £500.
Drivers & station staff working working it as part of their normal shift do not get paid any extra - only on Millenium Eve (16 years ago!!) did staff get paid that kind of bonus (if you did extra hours that night).
Used to work for London Underground.

If this helps even one person get home safely that has lost a wallet or is too drunk to walk home, then it's paid for itself in my opinion. Great gesture bearing in mind that they're probably paying the staff upwards of double time to provide the service.

Walk on, Stretchered off.

Doing NYE in London for the first time this year, got tickets for one of the zones south of the river. What can I honestly expect the tube to be like around 1am? Are we talking total chaos or just typical morning rush hour levels?

No worries, couldn't go home anyway, Southern strikes 31 Dec to 2 Jan, then again from 9-14.01 :wink:

A good gesture from London transport, but I'd rather not be there.....don't like the place..... Durham or York, Newcastle, or Edinburgh all much better places over the festive season!

Another example of my taxes being used to subsidise the prosperous south.

This free service has been sponsored since 1998, so hardly a new thing. Fosters lager were the first sponsors and subsequently companies such as Bud Ice, Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice. I think it is a good thing if companies want to sponsor free travel on NYE and discourage drink driving.

Whilst I don't have to travel daily on the underground, people knocking the system should stop and think how extensive the network is. There's no other underground like it in the world. The buses traveling around empty outside of the rush hour is another thing.

They'll be on strike most likely...

New years eve tubes are always free, this is a traditional gesture usually paid for by a big multi national sponsor and by the punters through impending fare increases...not a deal

Maybe you shouldn't be working in a job where you're directly dealing with members of the public.

Why are some freebies allowed here and others not?? just curious as this is not a deal it is a freebie

Travel on NYE but only from 23.45. Most of the free travel falls on NYD. There was a documentary on a couple of years back on TFL and they did a bit on NYE. The barriers are left open as to difficult to manage with all the drunks and not worth the hassle and the police also like the streets to clear so it's a partnership. Also the workers get a £500 bonus for working NYE though most are at street level managing crowd control.

Of course they could keep the gates shut if they want to. They do this every year as a company sponsors it. Also, if you're charged maximum fare, you just get a refund from the Oyster help desk.

Bus?

​LOL

Your right! There should have indeed been a smiley :smile:

There would be no way of actually keeping the gate closed and charge people because it would cause too much crowding and it would create issues for safety. So they are not doing it for the sake of giving ...

Also worth knowing if you travel from 22.50 let's say you enter through a gate but when you get to central london at 23.45 it will be open gate .... so you end up paying maximum fare !!!

​Why?

People have have been doing the Christmas 'run-up' since August 2026 this Year!, for well into the back-end of December 2016?!, so ..... loooool (& some earlier than that also?, eg. June/July2016, etc?).

So a greeting that's less than just half a Month away in comparison, is like a minor the way I see it?, lol.

Who wants to get on transport at 15 minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve ?
Most people should be busy celebrating and not waiting for transport to bring in the new year ?
oO :neutral_face:

Beware if you get on the tubes, last year the gates were open when I got on the network but when I exited it was past 4.45 and so the gates were shut and so I had to pay the penalty fare to get out :disappointed:

wait until the tube drivers strike on NYE.....

Unless you got millions in the bank who wants to live in Landon
public transport is a joke too :stuck_out_tongue:

I'm sure you have the backing and support of all London members as well

​Which is deserved. I've worked in retail, police, and public transport. The latter is the worst by far. Let alone doing it on NY Eve.

nolt to do with the ridiculous pay they'll have negotiated

Heated

If they really want to make it free for New Year's Eve then they should have that earlier for people to really travel free to Central London not just the return.
At that time, for health and safety station staff will keep the ticket barriers open anyway so it does not really matter if you have paid or not.

Isn't it always free ? I always just walk on and off the busses and tubes. Never pay a fare ... :stuck_out_tongue:










OK - just kidding :wink:

TfL have done this for quite a few years now. Maybe as a true gesture, they should extend the timing from say 8pm through to 8am .... ?

​You forgot the smiley face to show people that you were joking. You wouldn't want folks thinking you were one of those kind of people now, would you.

The real reason this is free, is because it is easier than arguing with drunk people about buying a ticket. Over the years TfL have dressed this up as a wonderful thing they are doing and even get it sponsored now.

Every time that I've gone into central London for Xmas eve I've regretted it immensely

Well posted OP, even though I don't live in the south. Heat!

There's no shame in not living in london.

Ha ha! Best of luck with that. #sogladimnotalondoner

Closed for a reason of course - there is always the Premiership football fan option of leaving the fireworks at 0005hrs before the rush :o)

Cold as it's not national!

Not living in London is not a shame.

That's pretty awesome. Shame I'm not in London!

Wishing people a happy new year on December 19th. Isn't that some kind of record?

Can always find something to moan about, but this isn't one of them. I know they get paid, but kudos to the guys and gals working this New Year's eve to let this happen. Happy New Year folks. :-)

Oh and before the whiners come on bitching that this isn't a deal, I didn't know about this, and wouldn't have done had it not been here, so given the huge number of people that this could actually really benefit, do the rest of us a favour and bore off before you start. But Happy New Year anyway, even to you :-)

voted hot! free bus home for me yay!

Unless they arent running because they're on strike...

What a negative bunch... seems like a wonderful idea to me. Stops people from drink driving and just makes life a but easier. Good job says I.

Good luck with that. Most central stations will be closed and the few open you could quew for ages to get on.

I always just end up walking home to Islington

l tend to believe as well, but BIG but compared to what we claimed to believe, we are 3rd world in infrastructure.
Years ago (l can find the date) someone from S.Korea (Long Story) ask me what speed to get for his broadband (he said 10MBS he can live with, l thought he was joking when the highest in my area was under 1MBS, and before you start where was l living, the highest in UK then was under 2MB
London is amazing, l loved that free transport and never really appreciated the people that gave up their family to let me get home
THANK YOU FOR ALL SACRIFICES

No worries, they're going to rip us off even more in the new year with their 1.9% increase. Stellar service!

As much as I'd hate to live in London (as per my comment above), I do envy the bus and tube services over there. On New Year's Eve, our First Bus services here in Swansea stop at around 18:00 and don't resume until the 2nd of January. The joys of privately run transport...

I'm a bus driver up north. no services running through night. hats of to the lads and lasses working!

And Southern can't even run a train I paid for!