Great to hear that @Translink_NI have agreed to provide late-night buses over the xmas period. Services will run on Fri & Sat nights, at £6 per journey. Hoping this is the first step towards year round night services, although we’d need to do something about that ticket price.
by kharma45
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£6 for a single is pricey. Most people will likely need to buy a single getting in to town on the bus in the first place. Still cheaper than a taxi. Not accepting day tickets is a joke. Translink admitting there is demand for late night services, profiteering but also only doing it for one month of the year is very Translink.
£6 for what service /bus routes though?
Nice this will save a lot of people a lot of stress
£6 is ridiculous. Almost as if they don’t actually want people to use it.
>Special Nightmover fares will be applied for all passengers starting from £6 for an adult Metro single ticket. These can be purchased from the driver, conductor or station staff on the day of travel.
If they aren’t available on mLink or contactless tap and go, that will also be a massive pain.
What routes? And to what time?
Imagine a world where you own a private” for profit company ” , the government heavily subsidises everything you want or need, let’s you buy new toys, keep the profit and on top of that they ensure that within your industry you won’t ever have any competition- In return , all you have to do is meet the lowest basic reliable standards that the Soviets well surpassed in the 40’s- in a country with only 1.8 million people that mostly reside near or close to main city’s yet most drive – so only having to provide a substandard but consistent service to an even smaller fraction of the population.
Any normal person that owns that particular company would be laughing all the way to the bank- and you would have the largest, well paid reliable workforce while making big bank in profits.
Irrelevant to cost of tickets, the gov/translink need to figure out how to meet the needs of its customers or let other private competitors enter the market.
Just like our government, councils, health, education and transport – if they were run by private companies rather than appointed “deskies” with no practical job experience in said field- we might actually get somewhere.
What I don’t get is (I know they get advice etc) but why do all the decisions get made on the back of politicians that don’t have practical experience in the roles they legislate for – you would imagine for example:
Transport minister- ex train driver/haulier etc
– nah- politician
Health minister- retired anesthetist/surgeon etc
– nah-politician
Finance minister- retired director of some multi £company or successful entrepreneur etc
Education minister- maybe a retired head teacher etc
Agriculture minister- maybe a fucking farmer or atleast a culchie
Justice minister- an ex judge or even an ex criminal ffs
Economy minister- I’d settle for someone that makes £5 grand selling internationally on ebay ffs
Communities minister- maybe someone that once lived in a terraced house or an area where the ice cream van sold more cigs and hash than 99’s
And to tap it all aff the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has never lived in Northern Ireland before the role……
We wouldn’t want a taxi driver providing chemotherapy, I don’t want my joiner making worldwide trade deals and I wouldn’t let my greengrocer perform a hip replacement on anyone- why the fuck are we letting these edjits control our sectors of life that they have no fucking idea about………and we have to pay for the privilege in our rates ? “Fuck me lads – I’m on a rant tonight- get me started on divisive topics – I’ll fight anyone and their irish american great uncle 3rd gen 2x removed for no reason ” lol