Bus Prices

Haggisman said:
Worryingly true, same in Bath :mad:
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Tell me about it! In my car I can be in Bath in 10-15 mins on a good day, the bus takes an hour and for that privilege they charge £6!

Park and ride is no better, £2.50 or something per person!! Anymore than one of you and its cheaper to park in town.

Buses are a rip off
 
What annoys me is the fact that if I fancy nipping to Manchester for the day it costs me £4 for the return bus journey into town (15 minutes) and then it is only £2.50 return to Manchester on the train which is 30 mins

But I still pay this rather than driving as I hate driving in Manchester city centre and the parking is shockingly expensive
 
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Stagecoach in Cambridge do a dayrider for £3.30, and a single for £1.80, so it's cheaper for a dayrider than 2 singles :)
 
London buses used to be 40p up until about 10 years ago and now they are £2 if you have to pay cash fare.

I feel sorry for people who visit London, they literally get spanked on travel unless they put a load of money on an Oyster card.
 
About 5 years ago I could get a return ticket for 1 English pound, now they stop doing returns and it's £1.30 each way. I just pay for a taxi now £4 each way and no standing up. Still in Malta you can get a bus ticket half way around the island for 48 euro cent! and you get to see a nice picture of Jesus, unlike the depressing buses here.
 
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Drove to the cinema the other day because the parking/petrol was cheaper than the bus would have been. TFL @ fail :rolleyes:
 
I get the bus to work which is 9 miles on bike so. £1.35 on the first bus and I think £1.90+ on the second bus. I generally get the £3.50 all day ticket. They do a two journey ticket which is £3.20 whick I still don't understand fully I thought it was a return but it can be two forward journeys :S A first week is £10.50 afaik.

The most annoying thing ever is that I can cycle that route in just over half the time it takes the damn buses!
 
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"andy" said:
buses are still far far too expensive though. costs me 2quid to go 1.5mile down a straight road. bus is always rammed full to so its not like theyre trying to make back costs!
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If the bus is always 'rammed full' that indicates that they'd be pretty stupid to decrease the price, if anything they should be increasing it.

Used to be the same for me, I'd pay around £2.80(?) for a return bus to the train station, in the end I started walking it, took about 33mins each way. Had a 27min walk to work at the other end so it meant that I was walking at least 2hrs every day :)
Day ticket was about £3.60 or something like that but I never bothered as I didn't change buses.
 
mrmoose said:
A 7day ticket in Manchester is £6. Bargain
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only on the cheap and nasty buses on main routes :p (mainly wilmslow road)

can't get those to work from here - you either get a finglands pass (when they decide show up) or a magic pass and suffer unknown trauma

either way you suffer from the fat controllers situated at owens park that hold up the bus for ages so they can cram as many people in as possible :o
 
I'm pretty sure they have put the single journey (one-way) prices up around here now, to something absolutely ridiculous like £3.20. I asked for £1.70 (didn't realise they had changed, been off for the summer) this morning on the Bus, he said the cheapest now is a day saver for £4.00, for a one-way journey, I didn't even need the day saver. It's an outrage.
 
Round here a single is £1.10 for inside 1 zone £1.70 for all zones and day rider is £3.20 on thamesdown, but you have to give exact fare or you lose money.
Don't use stagecoach buses.
But I still remember the days when I could buy a single for 40p or a day rider for a £1

Still, good to have a car, I rarely use the peasant wagon anymore :D
 
Stagecoach are a total rip off, it works out cheaper to get two singles than a return ticket to any location in my area. The fact that uni-riders cost £189 compared to the £300 that you'd pay by getting a normal ticket everyday means that stagecoach must make 70%+ gross profit on normal tickets.
 
Should get rid of "free" travel for the over 65s. Because the under 65s are paying for them everytime they use the bus. Socialism in a nut shell really. Lets have capitalism low price and same priced tickets for everyone!
 
The UK system isn't socialist or capitalist it's the worst of both, everyone has to pay crazy amounts of tax for a **** transport system, then those who actually use it have to pay again through extortionate ticket prices, lets have one or the other please.
 
Heh with my bus pass it costs £1.60 to to and from uni.

Without its something silly like £4 all day thing and after buying one i feel obliged to travel on every bus in Manchester :@

Or pay two singles at about £3 a piece lol!
 
In Belfast It is £1.60 One Way from anywhere on the Metro routes which is like the 12 main areas/routes in Belfast.

If you want a day ticket its £3.50 but if you buy the day ticket between 9am - 3pm Mon-Fri it is only £2.70! So works out cheaper to get a day ticket if you get the chance to!
 
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