Eighty per cent of all public transport journeys in London are made using Oyster cards.
It looks like some good news could be on the way for commuters who use Oyster cards.
Family Oyster cards with 25% discounts for London travel have been proposed by the Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA).
Their commuters are also getting charged for using it on their Oyster cards.
Oyster cards, which were introduced in 2003, are used on Tubes, buses, trains, trams and the Docklands Light Railway.
If your child gets free travel with Zip Oyster cards you may find some unclaimed cash on their travel pass.
TfL said the majority of 6.4 million passengers a day use travelcards or pay-as-you-go Oyster cards, as they offer cheaper fares.
The operator wants to run mainline services to Dartford and Dunton Green, near Sevenoaks, and said commuters would be able to use Oyster cards.
He turned his windowless East London studio into a crazy chemistry lab, filled with bubbling vats, boiling down Oyster cards to get at their guts.
If it really was simple for passengers to reclaim their money, why has the amount left on dormant Oyster cards doubled in the last two years?
Shashi Verma, TfL's director of customer experience, said: ''Pay as you go Oyster cards do not expire and customers are able to return their cards to a Tube ticket office at any time for a refund of the remaining balance and card deposit.
TfL says that in 2012, about 20, 000 Zip Oyster photo cards were withdrawn.
Since 2009, youths stripped of their Oyster Zip cards have been given the option to get them back by volunteering on a conservation project for a day.
Discussions are also under way with the train operating companies that serve London about accepting contactless payment cards where Oyster is currently accepted.
"If you present two cards together, the reader will normally reject them both, " an email to Oyster card users said.
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