Arriva Buses - Passes

[chris_r]

Hey

Due to my career it means i have to travel a lot and due to my bank account it means im limited to the bus!

I can get a weekly bus pass for £14 but does anyone know of a monthly one? I have searched everywhere an can only find an arriva student one for over £100!

I aint a student either!

Trains and buses would be perfect but tha would be a lot more, merseyside area only needed really

any info?

thanks

 

[unwashed potato!]

sos to be a thread hijacker epsically so early on in the thread but felt as this is open silly opening a new one as its only a quick question.

a couple of years back i used to get buses a lot to town, and at my place to get to town you get either the number 4 or 5 one is always coming every 10/20 minutes. so anyway sometimes i could get on say an arriva bus which was say number 4 as that was first to come, i'd get a return ticket, and then when i
return the bus that happens to be the number 4 is now a different company and i can't use my return meaning i have to buy another.

why is this? i would have thought bus times/prices are government set so all profits go to them which then a fair share goes to the bus companies which means it wouldn't make a difference who i got return with as it goes to 1 company?

 

[m4cc45]

Best thing would to go into the shops.

I know in Cardiff there is a bus only service which is around £40 for direct debit customers per month (so I'm guessing it will be similar) though this was dependant on the 'zones' you traveled through.

The only downside is that they said if you ever cancelled the direct debit then you couldn't ever go back on this scheme which i thought was harsh.

Hope this helps.



M.

 

[ps3ud0]

Not sure if youve already tried this, but surely you could just call them and ask what period bus passes they provide?

As far as I remember they used to do weekly; fortnightly; monthly; quartely and yearly passes so I cant see why they wouldnt still now, but probably dont advertise the fact since such a slim percentage of their customers would be interested in the tickets (outside of the weekly ones).

Or just ask the bus driver?

If they have the facility to provide a long-term ticket to students then they have the logistics to do the same for non-student customers...

http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/__80256E6A006CD1EE.nsf/vWeb/wpNPOK5YAN5G

ps3ud0

 

[nin9abadga]

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why is this? i would have thought bus times/prices are government set so all profits go to them which then a fair share goes to the bus companies which means it wouldn't make a difference who i got return with as it goes to 1 company?

they're pretty much all privately run or at least run for profit, so 2 different buses are from 2 different companies and so they ain't gonna be sharing nothing! it's also why you'll see the unpopular services reduced, those rural routes etc, they are either stopped or they're forced to be subsidised.

as for the op, in nottingham there is a monthly pass that costs around £35 which covers one transport company for buses and trams. as has been suggested go to the transport office or maybe the tourist info office and ask them what's on offer.

 

[Bill101]

do they not do The Trio pass anymore? that was a monthly thing.As a car driver I'm not that clued up on the latest news