RE: Pricing
Love it or hate the idea but the needing ID is working, just this morning a lad got on, looking at him i could tell he was early 20s, he said 1.20 please, i said you got any ID, he said no, i said where you traveling to he said eventually to durham, i said that a £7 all zone is what he needs then, but if you had ID you could be eligible for the £4.50 day ticket, he said what age does it go up to i said 25 and funnily enough he said well im 23 and pulled his ID straight out of his wallet. over the years how much has this lad saved? thousands probably, meaning just from this 1 person thousands of pounds of lost revenue for gne. this is just 1, how many others have been getting away with getting a pound fare well into their 20s. give it a few weeks and it will be second nature to produce ID, stagecoach have there VIP ID cards (that gne also accept as id) that have to be shown for an under 19 ticket. if people are also constantly asked for the next 2 weeks when they got on a bus if they have ID im sure they will soon remember to take it with them.