(03 Jan 2014, 11:32 am)andreos1 wrote I wonder what the equivelant fare would have been before ANE did the depot swap at Hexham.
An Arriva bus to Haymarket and then an Arriva bus to the Metrocentre would be a lot cheaper than the cost of an explorer ticket.
The fare would have been the Regionwide Arriva Day Ticket as the Triple Ticket didn't exist at the time.
aureolin Wrote:
"One message said: “I have had to stop using the buses as it is now cheaper for me to drive. I live in Bedlington and work at Metrocentre, and it was costing £9.30 a day for an Explorer North East which would mean a quarter of my wages went on bus fares."
That's ridiculous to be fair. I've just taken a look, and can't find a cheaper method of doing it. Arriva run an hourly 84 service on behalf of Nexus, but the first one is 10.11.
It is worth noting that the price the customer had to pay would be almost half the price under QCS. Wink Money worries, Mr. Souter?
As Arriva's South East Northumberland express routes wouldn't be part of the QCS, the fare would still be the same as it is now if a QCS happens