Meanwhile on the Tyne & Wear Metro they've capped Single Fares at £2 and Day Tickets at £4 providing you have an Adult/Child Pop Smart Card - https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...d-25879140 - It really begs the question why Bus Operators can't do the same and cap Day, Weekly and Monthly Fares unless of course you live in West Yorkshire where this is already in place.

The fare cap was introduced from today (January 2) and will run for the next three months. The £2 cap gives an adult with a Pop smartcard savings of up to 38% on a single journey, with an all-zone ticket currently costing £3.25.

The daily cap on all-zone travel will come down by 85p, from £4.85 currently. The £2 cap will also apply to young people with a Pop 19-21 card and to bus services that are contracted by Nexus.

Nexus said that its offer was only being made on Pop, which is already cheaper than paper tickets, in order to "encourage further take up" and cut down on printing tickets costs.

The discounts will not apply to those buying paper tickets from Metro ticket machines.

Nexus say they have introduced the fare cap to help Metro customers with the cost of living, and match an equivalent offer on the local bus network, since the Government confirmed that all bus journeys in England would be capped at that level between January and March 2023.