(01 Sep 2019, 12:21 pm)streetdeckfan wrote
Yes, really. The fact is that all bus fares cost more now, and the fact that an equivalent adult ticket costs 7 times more than the Nexus subsidised child day ticket says that it is subsidised too much.
Like I said before, if you're used to getting around for £1.10 a day and then your POP card expires and suddenly it costs you £7.80 (assuming you want an equivalent day ticket), rather than thinking you've been using the bus at a really subsidised rate, you're going to think that they've put the prices up for you, and it's going to put you off using the bus
Really?
So kids day tickets are 10x the price of inflation and adults tickets are more than that. Increasing above inflation on a regular basis.
Is it not that the adult prices are too high? Unless of course, there is some sort of competition on a certain corridor.
Distorting the jump perhaps?
That increase in adult fares, may be the reason passenger numbers are dropping and the reason GNE have increased the age allowance for cheaper tickets...