(10 Jul 2013, 3:06 pm)Andreos1 wrote Alex Fletcher > Go North East 2 hours ago
near Burnopfield ·
Have just got on the 43 durham from burnopfield to tanfield and got a return, and have been told than once past tantobie you can only purchase a return from durham bus station. Why is this? As durham
bus station is a hell of a lot further than tanfield. £4.40 from burnopfield to tanfield and back is disgusting its 5 minutes up the road! Like Daniel Kelly likes this.
Go North East > Hi Alex - as our fares are simplified the return price is the same from Durham. Apologies for the confusion
caused by this.
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Alex Fletcher > No confusion just disgusted cause durham is so much further than tanfield and i spend a lot with this company. Thanks for your help but i have made a complaint.
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Can anyone justify a short return journey like this, costing the same amount as it would if you were continuing the journey to Durham?
(12 Jul 2013, 12:32 pm)Andreos1 wrote Short blog about pricing www.passengerfocus.org.uk/blog/2013/07/12/bus-passengers-or-the-lack-of-them-the-nub-of-the-problem/
It is very true, especially closer to home in Middlesbrough - where the council has free town centre parking.
(12 Jul 2013, 1:27 pm)Andreos1 wrote Hahaha, hope that isn't you questioning the integrity of a Passenger Focus survey - an impartial, independent Government Organisation (apparently).
I wasn't accusing them, but got hauled over the coals by someone accusing me, just the other day in the Press Cuttings thread
(03 Aug 2013, 8:01 pm)aureolin wrote Weren't these originally marketed as cheap day returns?
Out of interest, does anyone know the difference in price between say the Arriva X2 and GNE 21? Single & return between Chester and Newcastle? Or anything else like that running in direct competition?
(03 Aug 2013, 8:01 pm)aureolin wrote Out of interest, does anyone know the difference in price between say the Arriva X2 and GNE 21? Single & return between Chester and Newcastle? Or anything else like that running in direct competition?
(03 Aug 2013, 8:37 pm)AdamY wrote(03 Aug 2013, 8:01 pm)aureolin wrote Out of interest, does anyone know the difference in price between say the Arriva X2 and GNE 21? Single & return between Chester and Newcastle? Or anything else like that running in direct competition?
Newcastle to Chester is £2.70(single)/£4.80(return) on the X2; and either £3.15 or £3.95(single)/£5.50(return) on the 21/28/28a.
(03 Aug 2013, 8:46 pm)aureolin wrote . If anything, it goes in favor of what I was saying about people being forced out of the single/return market. People will generally have multi trip tickets anyway.
(03 Aug 2013, 8:53 pm)Andreos1 wrote Why is the 21 and 28 the same price when they go different routes and have very little in the way of a common path - whilst the X1 is double the price of the M1 or the X1 being more expensive than a 56 between Wrekenton and Gateshead?
I would love to sit down in front of the person/people to come up with these strategies and listen to them as they try and justify it.
THE NEW FARES
In recent years the Passenger Transport Executive has moved towards a uniform scale of fares for the whole of Tyne and Wear County. In this revision this process is completed, thus removing the anomaly whereby journeys of a similar length cost different amounts in different areas of the county. In some cases the more expensive fares are reduced or remain unchanged.
(05 Aug 2013, 4:42 pm)aureolin wrote Single from Durham to Barley Mow on the 21 is the same price as Durham to Newcastle. Bloke holding this bus up arguing about it.
(05 Aug 2013, 4:58 pm)AdamY wrote(05 Aug 2013, 4:42 pm)aureolin wrote Single from Durham to Barley Mow on the 21 is the same price as Durham to Newcastle. Bloke holding this bus up arguing about it.
He has a valid point. Somebody on the bus should present the following hypothesis to the poor bus driver: if there is no difference between the fare from Durham to either Barley Mow and Newcastle, then, based on that premise, there should be no charge for travelling between Barley Mow and Newcastle.