I assume it’s £2 per trip, and your getting at least 1 trip each way, so £4.
I have to catch 2 busses each way to get to work so I’m at £8 per day so it’s cheaper to get a day/week/monthly pass.
Who does this actually help?
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Nice, this is good news! I’ll be interested to see what the percent change in ridership is after the end of June
Makes good headlines but you need to do the hard stuff to grow bus ridership long term. Bus priority and bus lanes, frequency increases, making it actually reliable.
So the cap is only costing up to £75m for 3 months?
That seems cheap enough that it should be permanent. Near me just the cost of a new modified junction (to add 1 sliproad to bypass a roundabout) is costing £150m I think. £300m/year to heavily reduce the cost of buses in the entire country is massively good. £300m isn’t even the cost of 1 mile of HS2.
I guess the operators are covering most of it or something? There’s not really details for this stuff.
Of course I’d rather cities/counties running their own services though, like London which has the cheapest buses by far, lower than everywhere else even with the caps which only dont apply in London because they’re already below the cap. I think Manchester does their own routes too now?
What’s needed now is more frequent buses and better routes. The bus that goes near me most frequently does not go near where I work, the one that does comes every 45 minutes. I am lucky enough to be close enough to walk to work but many people who work in the same building are not and are cut off from the bus service because of this, forcing them to drive in. Fares are part of the issue but the bus companies will never run services if they think they are unprofitable, which is why rural areas have been hit so hard by cancelled services.
It’d be great if my local bus company got some buses running on time or, for that matter, even running at all.
On what buses is this? Cost me £9 for a family ticket today, for myself and two kids
I definitely used my local bus more often because of £2tickets. Now if they have improved the routes as well… My bus into town takes absolutely ages, especially in the mornings, too many stops very close by and does a few loops, I really wish it was more direct
£5 all day here in Cornwall, or within most large towns its £2.50 a day.
So unless you’re going one way or quite far on direct routes the £2 fare is pretty pointless
Weekend returns are capped at £4 in the Birmingham area anyway, so this literally just helps a person to save 20p on one, single journey.
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Does this really help many people?
I assume it’s £2 per trip, and your getting at least 1 trip each way, so £4.
I have to catch 2 busses each way to get to work so I’m at £8 per day so it’s cheaper to get a day/week/monthly pass.
Who does this actually help?
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Nice, this is good news! I’ll be interested to see what the percent change in ridership is after the end of June
Makes good headlines but you need to do the hard stuff to grow bus ridership long term. Bus priority and bus lanes, frequency increases, making it actually reliable.
So the cap is only costing up to £75m for 3 months?
That seems cheap enough that it should be permanent. Near me just the cost of a new modified junction (to add 1 sliproad to bypass a roundabout) is costing £150m I think. £300m/year to heavily reduce the cost of buses in the entire country is massively good. £300m isn’t even the cost of 1 mile of HS2.
I guess the operators are covering most of it or something? There’s not really details for this stuff.
Of course I’d rather cities/counties running their own services though, like London which has the cheapest buses by far, lower than everywhere else even with the caps which only dont apply in London because they’re already below the cap. I think Manchester does their own routes too now?
What’s needed now is more frequent buses and better routes. The bus that goes near me most frequently does not go near where I work, the one that does comes every 45 minutes. I am lucky enough to be close enough to walk to work but many people who work in the same building are not and are cut off from the bus service because of this, forcing them to drive in. Fares are part of the issue but the bus companies will never run services if they think they are unprofitable, which is why rural areas have been hit so hard by cancelled services.
It’d be great if my local bus company got some buses running on time or, for that matter, even running at all.
On what buses is this? Cost me £9 for a family ticket today, for myself and two kids
I definitely used my local bus more often because of £2tickets. Now if they have improved the routes as well… My bus into town takes absolutely ages, especially in the mornings, too many stops very close by and does a few loops, I really wish it was more direct
£5 all day here in Cornwall, or within most large towns its £2.50 a day.
So unless you’re going one way or quite far on direct routes the £2 fare is pretty pointless
Weekend returns are capped at £4 in the Birmingham area anyway, so this literally just helps a person to save 20p on one, single journey.