(15 Dec 2024, 12:51 pm)Andreos1 wrote The network is a huge issue and does need looking at. As part of the bigger picture.
I agree that the £2/£2.50 fares are a sticking plaster, but regardless of what is done with the network, fares also need to looked at.
A network which suits the modern traveller will only be sustainable (note I didn't mention profit) if the fares are affordable and vfm.
At the moment, we've got the opposite. And it's not working.
Look at both and it might just work.
Aye definitely like personally I think tap in tap off should be top priority, if you get that working with some decent weekly and monthly caps then the price of a single becomes pretty irrelevant. Deep down in a way, I'd rather do what the tube does and punish people using the bus once a month to subsidise those who use it regularly.
Right now everything is broken and we're subsidising Peter to go to the pub once a week over someone using the bus to work every day.