(27 Jun 2020, 12:10 am)S830OFT wrote For the affordable travel I would say a slight reduction in price is needed to try and persuade more people to use Public Transport. Every year the price of travel goes up, even with Stagecoach being cheapest compared to the £7.80 ticket, it's really not flexible having to plan your day through their bus timetables.

For example returning to South Shields from Newcastle, would require having to mark the 20:30 bus as the final departure, then to have to change buses at Horsley Hill to get to South Shields. I might be saving peanuts buying a Stagecoach ticket, but I think most people who like a bargain would choose them if it meant saving money, which they could spend on something more useful to them.

It will be interesting over the next few months to see if Bus Fares increase dramatically, and commercial services are reduced in order to keep going. I certainly can't see the likes of the 100 continuing if barely anyone visits the Metrocentre...

I don't get why people get so hung up on the single, or even day ticket prices. Those are only for the occasional user, people who probably have another mode of transport. As soon as you switch over to a weekly or monthly ticket, the prices decrease massively. 

If you're lucky enough to live and work in T&W and want a ticket you can use on everything, that only works out at £3.75 a day with a monthly ticket for all zones, once again, if you use one or two zones, it's even cheaper!

If you only use the bus to commute to work, chances are (pre covid at least) you bought at least a weekly ticket, if not a monthly.  I paid £95 per month for my GNE All Zone, that works out at ~£3.20 a day (assuming you use it every day, which I pretty much did). Even the weekly ticket works out at ~£3.60 a day, or £5 a day if you only use it on the weekdays. If you only use the one zone, that's a lot cheaper.