Some good digging by London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon has revealed that in the first five months of the London bike hire scheme 2,771 have been wrongly charged, with a total of £23,895 taken from them in error.
As the Evening Standard reports:
Caroline Pidgeon, Liberal Democrat group leader on the London Assembly, who unearthed the figures, said: “Far too many people are being overcharged and TfL need to sort this issue out so Londoners remain confident in using it.”
You can read the full story here.
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RT @markpack: New from me: 2,771 people overcharged for use of hire bikes in London – http://bit.ly/ffglRy
An amount which I think of as 2 HMRC letters…