(30 Aug 2019, 7:36 pm)streetdeckfan wrote
Sure, I was just saying it's not really GNE's fault that it costs more in Durham, because the reason it's so cheap in T&W is because of their subsidies.
The issue I see is that with a family ticket, you have to be travelling with a child, but once your kids start school, you'll be spending most of the day travelling without them so you have to buy individual tickets.
I wonder if they could do a 'school run' ticket, where between say 7-9am and 3-5pm you can travel with a child on that same ticket
But they can make it as cheap as T&W. They (and others) choose not to.
They could reduce fares. They could introduce packages like the one you mention.
They don't. They make the conscious decision not to and to penalise parents for happening to live in the likes of a DH postcode.
Nexus (to their credit), subsidise services in T&W, but operators still muddy the waters by offering more expensive alternatives.
They don't need to do that. They make the conscious decision to do that though.