(20 Nov 2024, 1:30 pm)deanmachine wrote Personally I see it as, you've paid £2 for a ticket, and it's valid for as far as £2 goes, so you get on a 57 at Heworth, pay £2 and your ticket is valid as far as Newcastle. Like others have said though, it doesn't actually matter anymore, and the ticketer machines have always been less friendly for issuing fare stages than the older machines, where it would automatically put the furthest you could get on that fare stage.
Where's the direction that it doesn't matter coming from, out of interest? It's the one ticket that can accurately record where people are making journeys from/to, if it's sold correctly at the point of sale, so you'd think that level of data would be invaluable to the company.
I remember when tickets were issued to the furthest point on that fare stage in the past, but I recall that this would lead some customers in thinking they're being duped or charged too much for their ticket?