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Withdrawing from the travelcard scheme is a big one. Presumably if TfL withdraw then travelcards would be left only valid on National Rail, and in most cases not worth having at all. This would hit commuters who currently buy annual travelcards particularly hard, as not only will they then have to pay full price for every journey but they will also lose the gold card benefits.
It appears that some proposals are now being made as to how to address the TfL funding issues, the most pertinent being withdrawal of paper travelcards, a higher cost to access Heathrow on the Piccadilly Line, fare increases and increases in the eligibility age for free travel.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...-tube-bus-fares-heathrow-premium-b972232.html
What might be interesting is whether withdrawal from the travelcard scheme might mean that the abililty to put a paper ticket through TfL ticket barriers is withdrawn and that removal of cross-London travel on paper tickets is also to abolished.
Withdrawing from the travelcard scheme is a big one. Presumably if TfL withdraw then travelcards would be left only valid on National Rail, and in most cases not worth having at all. This would hit commuters who currently buy annual travelcards particularly hard, as not only will they then have to pay full price for every journey but they will also lose the gold card benefits.