(28 Mar 2017, 6:42 pm)2bagstew wrote I see Arriva have increased the fares
On the APP it still says £7.80 for the all zone ticket. This need to be sorted quickly
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That's the standard fare for an explorer, across all operators who issue them.
(28 Mar 2017, 9:23 pm)Multi21 wrote @Bus Lovers Mum - Fold over the bottom of the ticket that's what I've seen most people do as long as the ticket type and date are both showing you shouldn't have a problem
@2 bag stew - The ticket on the app is the Arriva All Zones Day Ticket which covers travel on any Arriva bus in the north east (excluding Whitby Park and ride I believe). The ticket you see in the screenshot is a Explorer North East which is valid on most services across the North East including the Tyne and Wear Metro and Shields ferry which for an extra 1.90 isn't bad going if you think about it.
It's fine when it's just me, but when I'm carrying a ticket for Big'un, I can no longer fit both in, together, without tearing them.
And yeah, the extra £1.90 is well worth it when I'm travelling to Newcastle - with the £7.80 ticket, I only have the option of the X12. With the explorer, you can add in the GNE services, X21, 21 and even the X30/X31 followed by the 16/16, or if I'm feeling really radical, I can get the metro or Stagecoach X24 to Sunderland and get a bus straight home from there. i could in theory get the X9 to Peterlee, but the connection is a duff one - much like the X12 when it gets back to DBS, in fact - I hopped on that at CLS, after an aborted trip to Newcastle, yesterday morning, and had time to run up to M&S on Silver Street to grab some of the shopping I couldn't get at Waitrose, after the morning's agenda was complete, before catching my 22, because I'd missed the previous one by 5 minutes.