12 Aug 2016, 11:03 pm
#265
(12 Aug 2016, 10:17 pm)ne14ne1 Yeah a few days ago a driver on the 21 said, 'Isn't that just for the Metro', when I presented my POP PAYG card.
I said no its for Metro, Arriva and Go Ahead, and showed him a screenshot I had ready of Go North East replying to my tweet confirming they accept it on all services as of 4th July. It was the first he'd heard of it so he scanned it (twice) and said well the ticket machines not accepting it.
(It was my first time using it so I just paid by cash to avoid any further delay). After a couple more tweets Go Ahead said they'd pass the info on to his depot manager as he should have entered my fare first, then scanned my POP card, then hit issue (twice?)).
Should be fun next time when I have to explain to the driver how to use his own ticket machine. Can imagine that going down well. lol.
I had a stagecoach driver who ended up looking to see if she could issue explorers herself, and then look surprised when I turned out to be right. It's not even as if they're some new fangled thing. More surprising considering that, when we caught the stagecoach 62s, last weekend, we just got waved on without our tickets even being looked at!
