Good – might be change to some – but it saves me £300 a year.
Genuinely sick of drivers getting frozen fuel duties and pandered to, while train and bus users get shafted.
Glad to hear it!
Got charged almost £100 because I needed to travel at “peak” times to go help out a family member. Not great when you’ve no choice on when your journey takes place.
How long until the price of a ticket is raised to what the peak fare was anyway?
Great news! I’m glad they’ve listened here. It was also announced that there would be a ‘significant marketing programme’ to support the removal of peak fares and increase uptake.
And another ScotRail announcement in the PfG is that the alcohol ban will be relaxed.
Fantastic! Peak fares are essentially a tax on working people, and they can be needlessly convoluted as well.
Airdrie to Edinburgh has a peak return, an off-peak return, and a super off-peak return which can only be used between 11am – 2pm and then after 7pm or something.
I’m very much looking forward to one price journeys again.
Braw stuff, good for the wallet and the planet. Half expect peak fares to become the normal fare though.
Great news, glad to see changes like this after ScotRail was taken into public hands
Thank fuck.
I rarely travel at peak times, and the loss of super off-peak with this will probably overall make things a bit more expensive for me when I go to Edinburgh for mid-week gigs, but a great chance all the same.
Hopefully now that it’s a permanent adoption, we see an overhaul of pricing for season tickets and single tickets, making them more affordable.
Finally, some sense!
Now do away with first class please.
Great news
Good stuff! Thought this might happen.
The greens really bending the truth here 😂 “greens scrapped peak rail fairs and snp reintroduced them” or in reality “greens tabled a trial to remove train fairs and the trail ended”
As someone who has been using mostly buses, trying to wrap my head around the “peak/off-peak/super off peak” rate nonsense was a complete headache.
One time they wouldn’t let me out of the station because “you have to wait until after 8 PM to leave with off-peak”.
Even if we all pay a wee bit more, this way makes more sense.
September 2nd, ticket prices to increase, now peak rates are all rates!
Actually amazing news for a change!
Just in time for election season where you need the Greens.
Sure the fares are ‘scrapped’ by being absorbed into a rise of all other normal off-peak fares. “No strikes in Scotland”, how much will the RMT/ASLEF be awarded next time.
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Great news! And people say the Greens are useless.
[STV reporting](https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotrail-peak-fares-permanently-scrapped-by-scottish-government)
Good – might be change to some – but it saves me £300 a year.
Genuinely sick of drivers getting frozen fuel duties and pandered to, while train and bus users get shafted.
Glad to hear it!
Got charged almost £100 because I needed to travel at “peak” times to go help out a family member. Not great when you’ve no choice on when your journey takes place.
How long until the price of a ticket is raised to what the peak fare was anyway?
Great news! I’m glad they’ve listened here. It was also announced that there would be a ‘significant marketing programme’ to support the removal of peak fares and increase uptake.
And another ScotRail announcement in the PfG is that the alcohol ban will be relaxed.
Fantastic! Peak fares are essentially a tax on working people, and they can be needlessly convoluted as well.
Airdrie to Edinburgh has a peak return, an off-peak return, and a super off-peak return which can only be used between 11am – 2pm and then after 7pm or something.
I’m very much looking forward to one price journeys again.
Braw stuff, good for the wallet and the planet. Half expect peak fares to become the normal fare though.
Great news, glad to see changes like this after ScotRail was taken into public hands
Thank fuck.
I rarely travel at peak times, and the loss of super off-peak with this will probably overall make things a bit more expensive for me when I go to Edinburgh for mid-week gigs, but a great chance all the same.
Hopefully now that it’s a permanent adoption, we see an overhaul of pricing for season tickets and single tickets, making them more affordable.
Finally, some sense!
Now do away with first class please.
Great news
Good stuff! Thought this might happen.
The greens really bending the truth here 😂 “greens scrapped peak rail fairs and snp reintroduced them” or in reality “greens tabled a trial to remove train fairs and the trail ended”
As someone who has been using mostly buses, trying to wrap my head around the “peak/off-peak/super off peak” rate nonsense was a complete headache.
One time they wouldn’t let me out of the station because “you have to wait until after 8 PM to leave with off-peak”.
Even if we all pay a wee bit more, this way makes more sense.
September 2nd, ticket prices to increase, now peak rates are all rates!
Actually amazing news for a change!
Just in time for election season where you need the Greens.
Sure the fares are ‘scrapped’ by being absorbed into a rise of all other normal off-peak fares. “No strikes in Scotland”, how much will the RMT/ASLEF be awarded next time.
Again?
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