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Riverboat commuters can look forward to using their Oyster cards on Thames Clippers boats before the end of the year.
The Wharf can reveal the company is close to agreeing a deal with Transport for London to enable pay-as-you-go Oyster cards to be used on the service, and the system could be operational by the autumn.
THAMES Clippers is doing its best but is a victim of its own success, according to the man behind it.
The river boat service has never been more popular, with passenger numbers up 150 per cent in the last year. Closures on the DLR and regular delays on the Jubilee line results in more people turning to the Clippers to get to and from work.
IT WAS plain sailing for one of Britain's best yachtswomen when she took part in a boating challenge on the Thames this week.
Dame Ellen MacArthur, best known for her solo global circumnavigations, took the helm of an iShares Extreme 40 catamaran on a course somewhat shorter than the 27,354 nautical miles she sailed alone in 2005.
The boat, one of the fastest on the water, set sail from Greenwich Yacht Club on Monday morning as four crews attempted to set the quickest sailing time on a course from the club to The O2 and back again.
