(02 May 2015, 12:34 pm)Michael wrote Not everyone looks at the notice boards though....
Which is evident everytime there are changes to services and increases to fares.
Appreciate you can lead a horse to water (and the rest), but if the same excuses come up time after time, the penny may drop that alternative methods need to be used more often.
(02 May 2015, 12:42 pm)aureolin wrote A strange move when inflation (CPI) is at 0.3%.
Using the figures above, the average rise for 1 day tickets is 1.67%, with the average for 7 day tickets being 1.78%. Making both rises at least 5x the rate of inflation.
Such an increase is unaffordable and is going to really hit some low paid workers. Baring in mind that employers will point towards inflation being so low, when they attempt to wriggle out of reviewing their staff salaries for the coming year...
You were right in the prices thread.
Close to deflation, costs dropping - yet fares increasing.
The poor state of the economy in the NE is used as a justification at national level, yet those living and working in the struggling economy, are the ones paying the price.