(14 Apr 2020, 12:46 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Maybe if GNE published a fares table that showed how the tickets work it would be a lot less confusing!
I've said many times in this topic that if you're just doing quick hop on-hop off journeys, buses aren't exactly the best value for money, but when you compare it to the full price of running a car (insurance, tax, fuel, depreciation etc.) they're still not 'expensive'.
Sure, if you already have a car then it may seem expensive, but if you don't have one, then it's still cheaper to pay the single ticket price, and if you use it regularly, it's waaay cheaper to buy a multi use ticket.
You keeping saying buses are cheaper but I'm sorry for 99% of people it's just not true. Unless your a single person, living alone, who only shops online that never travels with anyone and never goes away to other cities or the countryside then it's not cheaper at all. Buses don't go where people want to be, Teeside Park, Team Valley etc and you can't just tell people they can't go there.
Unless you live 4 mile max from the centre of Newcastle, Sunderland or Middlesbrough and possibly some of the larger towns like Bishop, Darlington etc then buses will never ever be a reasonable choice for families or really anyone as there's no way bus companies can create routes which the communities want because of random out of town shopping places dotted all over.
If bus companies and councils around here want to serously want to make buses seem attrative they need to look at ways at making travelling by car then using the bus or metro attractive together not against each other by things such as P&R etc. Right now though no-one would consider it as the price of buses are way to expensive to pay the extra on top of also paying for the car etc.
Also GNE would never share a fare table, you don't publish things that push people away from using your services, it's a horrid system which punishes people who just live over zones.