How much is bus travel in your area?

[marty21]

They were renamed when TFL took over the Silverlink Metro local trains between Euston and Watford. A travelcard for Zone 1 to 9 (Amersham and Chesham) is £13.80 in the peak and £8.20 during the day, but even this is cheap compared to a Travelcard to Watford Junction which is closer to London than any of Zone 9, but offically is outside the zones (despite Watford Met being in Zone 7 and Watford High Street in Zone 8) where a peak travelcard is £17.80 and an off peak one is £13.10. Thank you London Midland

In Watford on the red TFL routes the 142 to Stanmore, Edgware and Brent Cross and the 258 to Harrow it's 90p flat fare on Oyster, on the local green Arriva buses the cheeky beggers in the course of the past year have bumped up the price of a day ticket from £2.50 to £4

ta muchly

 

[ethel]

You could always have an oyster card with a small amount of pre-pay on for the bus.

indeed. i'm on national rail too, but i still have my oyster!

 

[chooch]

€1.10 flat fare. Is bargain across town.

 

[BigTom]

£1.50 single - essentially flat rate although there is some kind of "short hop" fare.. but I know from experience that this is less than four stops long.. £3 for a daysaver (any twm buses all day).. it's the same company as in wolves, but it seems mr steev has some choice.. there is another bus company with some routes around me in brum.. think they charge £1.50 for a single and £2 for all day travel but you can't use one ticket on the other company.
I tend to walk the half hour into town rather than take a bus for £1.50.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Brighton I think is £1.80 minimum single flat rate now, at least for the route from my mum's house to town (longer journeys would cost more). I remember that price creeping up quickly in not too long a time - it seemed that everytime I'd visit prices would have gone up.

It's £1.30 for a city fare (which covers bugger all thats useful really - quicker to walk) or £1.80 for anything else.
Day savers are £3.50, although you can still buy them in shops for £3.20 or online for £3!
But yeah - it's gone up loads in the last couple of years.

I'm pondering on the idea of scraping together £300 for an annual bus pass now that i have an NUS card (as opposed to the £430 it'd usually be)...it's a lot all at once, but although I always walk into town, I get a bus back at least 3 times a week, if not more, so I'd definitely save in the long run.....

Don't want it to make me lazy either, though!


**and those are SuperSavers that'd take you all the way to Eastbourne as opposed to the £3.50 ones you buy on the bus that are actually only city savers (but take you all over brighton - not the same limited range as the stingy £1.30 single city fare....iyswim )!

 

[rennie]

£90 p for a single journey on Oyster.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Oh we do also have THE BIG LEMON bus here too, which is far cheaper, but as yet it's only running on one route.

Lemon Single: £1.20

Lemon Saver (All day): £2

Lemonade (Six journeys): £5*

Lemon Week (7 consecutive days): £7

Child under 14 or teenager with BusID/BusID+: Half price

Brighton and Hove Buses Saver/Season Ticket Holder: 60p

Club Membership (free travel for a year and other benefits): £120

Up to 3 children with
full-fare-paying adult: Free

Consessionary Bus Pass Holder: Free

Bus Drivers (Any bus company): Free

Shareholders: 60p

 

[pogofish]

Read last night that they are just about to put local taxi fares up to a minimum of £5 per two miles.

 

[Isambard]

90p for up to 4 stops in one go. 1.70 for as far as you want in the city, changing onto other buses and trains as well.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It's a fucking ripoff in Newcastle if you pay per fare - 1.80 to take us from High Heaton to the city centre, which is about 10 minutes

But if you buy a week's pass, that's only 10 quid, and that covers the whole of the Greater Newcastle area right out to Whitley Bay etc. So that's infinitely better value.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

glasgow buses don't give change. they are also rubbish.

my local bus used to stop at 5.30pm

whoever in glasgow city council though that a pub closing time of midnight but closing the tube and winding down the bus service at 11.30 was a good idea is an idiot.

Glasgow buses are indeed rubbish, about the only thing I prefer through here in Edinburgh. £1.10 flat rate single, £2.50 day ticket. Amazing not living in a First monopoly.