Transport for London drops rules on compulsory face masks

"Passengers will no longer need to wear masks on the tube and other transport in the capital from Thursday, Transport for London has announced.

TfL said it would continue to strongly recommend masks are worn but would no longer make them mandatory.

TfL has previously continued to make mask-wearing a “condition of carriage” on London Underground and other services, even when the government said they were no longer a legal requirement.

However, compliance rates dropped without the threat of enforcement by police or fixed penalty notices. The legal requirement in England to wear masks on transport and other public settings, reimposed during the Omicron surge, was dropped in late January."

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"TfL said independent testing by Imperial College London carried out monthly since September 2020 had no found traces of coronavirus on touch points in stations and on buses, and revealed that the whole transport network was well ventilated."

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I was up in London at the start of February. The majority of passengers that I saw on the Tube were wearing masks.