(05 Aug 2013, 5:06 pm)citaro5284 wrote(05 Aug 2013, 4:58 pm)AdamY wrote(05 Aug 2013, 4:42 pm)aureolin wrote Single from Durham to Barley Mow on the 21 is the same price as Durham to Newcastle. Bloke holding this bus up arguing about it.
He has a valid point. Somebody on the bus should present the following hypothesis to the poor bus driver: if there is no difference between the fare from Durham to either Barley Mow and Newcastle, then, based on that premise, there should be no charge for travelling between Barley Mow and Newcastle.
If I put a search into East Coast, it is the same price from Durham to London and Newcastle to London, so are you saying there should be no charge between Durham and Newcastle by train?
I was being facetious. However....
The approximate length of the route which the 21 takes is 16.8 miles. The distance between Newcastle and Barley Mow is around 8.1 miles. This is just under half of the length of entire route. Is it really acceptable for passengers to be charged the same fare for travelling half the route as they would for the entire route? Or, to use the railway comparison, would you expect to pay the same fare from London to Doncaster as you would from London to Newcastle? If you lived in Donny, would you be happy about it?