This is a lovely idea. Capping the fares just in time for all those people who are gonna sit on the bus cos it’s warmer than their homes.
Public transport should be free, that way more people might actually use it.
£2 per journey is still very expensive, it shouldn’t be cheaper for people to get into their cars than get on public transport.
Decent plan but who actually buys single tickets? They need to cap the price of dayriders.
I wonder if Arriva are signing up for this on all their routes, it’s over £4 for a single now for me, may as well just drive.
It’s £2.40 In Birmingham and has been for the last 4yrs (i think) as a single full journey. Im not saving that much as they cap your card at £4 for a day saver. Only downside is, its Birmingham.
£3.40 for a single in Cambridge. Would be happy with this
Wish Scotland would do this, paying 3.60 a single currently
In theory great.
In practicality, my local route has been saved by emergency council funding twice this year, and it’s only guaranteed until the start of next year. If they have to cut their £7 return fare down to £4, we’re just not going to have a bus service.
Cap will never work during energy crisis, there will just be more waste in artificial demand and lead to even higher prices or more shortage.
*laughs in rural bus prices*
I live in Liverpool now where it’s £2.30 for a single but I used to live in The New Forest where a single to Southampton (which was only 25 mins by bus) was over £5
Return to my work is £4.20. That 20p saving is really going to help!
Great for the 5% of people who actually use single tickets and but not helpful to the 95%.
Could be that buyers of single tickets are over represented in the demographics struggling but I haven’t saw anything to indicate as such.
I’d rather pay £15 taxi fare to get to the school I work in, than pay £2 to get the bus. I need to get there in a calm relaxed state. Not possible on my local public transport.
It’s a small step but good to see they are looking at buses, feels like they always get ignored. It doesn’t tackle the key issues though – there’s a driver shortage, buses in rural areas are getting cut and reliability is still a massive issue. Not sure the cap will be enough to tempt people back
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This is a lovely idea. Capping the fares just in time for all those people who are gonna sit on the bus cos it’s warmer than their homes.
Public transport should be free, that way more people might actually use it.
£2 per journey is still very expensive, it shouldn’t be cheaper for people to get into their cars than get on public transport.
Decent plan but who actually buys single tickets? They need to cap the price of dayriders.
I wonder if Arriva are signing up for this on all their routes, it’s over £4 for a single now for me, may as well just drive.
It’s £2.40 In Birmingham and has been for the last 4yrs (i think) as a single full journey. Im not saving that much as they cap your card at £4 for a day saver. Only downside is, its Birmingham.
£3.40 for a single in Cambridge. Would be happy with this
Wish Scotland would do this, paying 3.60 a single currently
In theory great.
In practicality, my local route has been saved by emergency council funding twice this year, and it’s only guaranteed until the start of next year. If they have to cut their £7 return fare down to £4, we’re just not going to have a bus service.
Cap will never work during energy crisis, there will just be more waste in artificial demand and lead to even higher prices or more shortage.
*laughs in rural bus prices*
I live in Liverpool now where it’s £2.30 for a single but I used to live in The New Forest where a single to Southampton (which was only 25 mins by bus) was over £5
Return to my work is £4.20. That 20p saving is really going to help!
Great for the 5% of people who actually use single tickets and but not helpful to the 95%.
Could be that buyers of single tickets are over represented in the demographics struggling but I haven’t saw anything to indicate as such.
I’d rather pay £15 taxi fare to get to the school I work in, than pay £2 to get the bus. I need to get there in a calm relaxed state. Not possible on my local public transport.
It’s a small step but good to see they are looking at buses, feels like they always get ignored. It doesn’t tackle the key issues though – there’s a driver shortage, buses in rural areas are getting cut and reliability is still a massive issue. Not sure the cap will be enough to tempt people back