PRESTIGE statistics

Project finance

• £192m investment by TranSys consortium in the PRESTIGE system
• The Oyster card is one part of PRESTIGE - a £1.2bn scheme to upgrade the ticketing system on the Transport for London network.

Equipment installation

• 155 Underground and 38 mainline train stations installed with new gates. 110 gates replaced at mainline stations.
• Over 8,500 buses on the London Buses' network fitted with new Electronic Ticket Machines.
• New ticketing equipment installed in 260 Underground stations, 38 train stations, 40 Tram stops and 34 DLR stations.
• 320 Multifare ticket machines upgraded at London Underground stations.
• 99 Underground stations provided with new 'Quick Tickets' or 'Queuebuster' self-service ticket machines.
• 16,000 smartcard readers installed on ticketing devices across the London Bus and Underground network.
• 551 passenger validators installed on the Underground, 110 on the DLR and 94 on Tramlink.

Card usage figures

• 17 million cards have now been distributed.
• 7.2 million journeys are made using Oyster each day (bus, Tube, DLR, Tramlink and National Rail).
• 36 million journeys are made using Oyster each week (bus, Tube, DLR, Tramlink and National Rail).
• 12 million journeys per week are made by people using Pay As You Go on their Oyster card (bus, Tube, DLR, Tramlink and National Rail).
• The number of journeys made using an oyster season ticket has increased from 101 million to 149 million per month in the last year.
• Oyster card journeys now represent around 80% of all journeys made on London's buses and Tube compared to one quarter of all such journeys made last year. (2005)

Ticket stop network

• Total ticket stops now stands at over 4,000, of which 2,300 are equipped to issue and recharge Oyster.
• There are approximately 130 agents in Central London
• A third of Oyster card sales are made through the agent network