(02 May 2015, 1:04 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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.
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.
The thing is that some people will be thinking "Oh it's just 10p","It's just 50p" etc, but it's all contributing towards a very worrying trend. The Trussell Trust published their mid year statistics for 2014-15, showing that in 2014-15, an alarming 22.04% of referrals to their food banks were in fact those on low incomes. Up from 16% in the last period.
This isn't an optional extra like pay-TV or a mobile phone plan that you can go without. Public transport is a necessity to some, preventing their low income from becoming a no-income.