Bus fare - How bloody much?!

[Noodley]

Choices

 

[Leodis]

Leeds is about £4.60 for day rider throughout West Yorks, whilst in the Lakes it cost us £16.80 from Windermere to Keswick!! All of 25 miles, I could catch a train on the same distance as that.

 

[Sandra6]

Bus fares are extortionate here too.
Local trips around Carlisle aren't too bad, About £1 for a mile, and a saver ticket is only a couple of quid that you can use all day - but tbh if you're only going a mile or so do you need to take the bus??
When we lived in Wigton it was a ten mile trip to town, and it costs £6.50 for a "saver" ticket, £13 for a family ticket -which is good value, for 2 adults and 3 children but only after 9. The 9o'clock bus was a couple of minutes early once and they tried to charge me over £20 for the same journey - we got off and waited half an hour for the next bus!
If we wanted to go any further than the 10 miles we'd need a more expensive family ticket which was close to £20 last time I bought one though.
What really gave me rage was the cost of sending my daughter to school when we first moved here - £5.50 for a day return, and no child's weekly saver so I had to buy an adult pass for £22.
Eeh when I was a child it was 10p and you could go anywhere in Greater Manchester for that!

 

[gavintc]

I remember as a child 40 yrs ago doing the sums and finding that Concorde was cheaper per mile than Edinburgh buses. Nothing new.

 

[Born2die]

£1.90 single here into town it's a 1 1/2 mile journey takes me 5 mins to ride. If I have junior it's £3.25 singles or £5.80 return.

On a Sunday when they run every half hour it's quicker to walk no wonder I take the bikes or walk all the time.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Am I allowed to say boody in the title?

Anyhoo. Being the cruel wicked step mother that I am I have just forced my lovely boyfriend, son and step son to go on a car free camping holiday to Robin Hoods Bay.

We got the train to Scarborough and then bus to RHB. OH says I went visibly pale when bus driver told me the price of the fare from Scarborough to RHB for 2 adults and 2 children - £13!!!! This was for a day saver family ticket, and the driver proudly told me I could go all the way to newcastle with it. Brilliant, except I only wanted to go 30 minutes up the coast to RHB.
The single fare for an adult was £4.90, for 30 minutes on the bus!! Is this the most expensive bus fare in Britain?

We had planned to do quite alot of roving up and down the coast, but hadn't planned on the bus fares being so expensive, so we didn't bother. We had a nice walk to Whitby from RHB one day, The bus fare back was £11.40, so we opted for a taxi at £10.20!

And people wonder why the public at large are so attatched to their cars.

How much does it cost for a 30 minute ride where you live?

Seriously? Sounds ok to me. I just came back from Scarborough on Friday and we detoured to RHB to take pic's as my mate is doing the Coast to Coast route next year which finishes at RHB and we thought it would help motivate him if he had the end point to look at.

Whilst the Scarborough to RHB distance is not huge it was a good 25 minute car ride for us and at £3.25 a person I think that's not unreasonable.

In fact at £1.60 per child (alternative way of looking at it) it's amazing they make any money at all.

So, if the journey would have been £6.60 by car that would have been £1.65 per person - which is what I expect the bus fare to be.
I don't think it's right that public transport should ever be more expensie than travelling by car.

I really don't follow your logic there.

 

[Leodis]

Am I allowed to say boody in the title?

Anyhoo. Being the cruel wicked step mother that I am I have just forced my lovely boyfriend, son and step son to go on a car free camping holiday to Robin Hoods Bay.

We got the train to Scarborough and then bus to RHB. OH says I went visibly pale when bus driver told me the price of the fare from Scarborough to RHB for 2 adults and 2 children - £13!!!! This was for a day saver family ticket, and the driver proudly told me I could go all the way to newcastle with it. Brilliant, except I only wanted to go 30 minutes up the coast to RHB.
The single fare for an adult was £4.90, for 30 minutes on the bus!! Is this the most expensive bus fare in Britain?

We had planned to do quite alot of roving up and down the coast, but hadn't planned on the bus fares being so expensive, so we didn't bother. We had a nice walk to Whitby from RHB one day, The bus fare back was £11.40, so we opted for a taxi at £10.20!

And people wonder why the public at large are so attatched to their cars.

How much does it cost for a 30 minute ride where you live?

No, Grasmere to Keswick... £7.20 one way EACH!! Thats 12 miles... Broken Britain

 

[steve52]

air travel can be cheaper than trains too

 

[Bromptonaut]

While 44p mile is a basis for calculation of car costs it falls flat in a real world where all the fixed charges (purchase/depreciation, insurance and VED) are already paid. Most car service intervals are now over 12k as well.

Bus from here to Northampton is something like £6 return - a 10 mile round trip. The only visible cost with car, paid for and otherwise idle but needed at weekends, is a litre of diesel for each out & back journey. Daughter takes me in morning and picks me up again in evening.

 

[RWright]

We don't really have a bus system in my town but there is a system for disabled and elderly people to get free rides to human services agencies and such. I was curious and just read on the county website that it is available to the general public as well, they will pick you up if it isn't too far from their established routes. They use big vans rather than full size buses. You have to call for the current fee.

Chapel Hill is a University Town about thirty miles away and buses there are free. I checked the bus fees in Raleigh, about 40 miles away, you can ride all day in the city for 2 dollars. Kids under 12 free and kids over 65 free.

Greyhound is the bus system to travel between states and cities and it looks like it cost 57 dollars to travel from Raleigh to New York City, about 500 miles. That is using the internet for reservations. We don't even have a Greyhound bus station in my town anymore. I guess I would have to take a taxi to get to a bus station in another city.
Passenger trains quit stopping in my town quite a while ago.

I have never paid to ride a bus or train and have only been on a train one time when I was maybe 7 years old...besides Tweetsie Railroad, a Wild West theme park in the mountains, with a steam locomotive. Train
robbers and Indian attacks on that one.

I haven't checked air fares in a while, no idea what they are now.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I caught the bus to the football match yesterday,i normally cycle, walk or drive but i was planning on having a few pints before and after the match so i got myself a return ticket ticket at £4.20 for a 6 mile there and back journey. I noticed that around 50% of the passengers didn't pay as they had bus passes. In my opinion the fares are high to pay for the ones who don't pay. Nothing is for free and someone has to do the paying for the ones who don't pay.

 

[Toeclip]

I`ve got a bus pass, but I had to pay £2.60 the other day as it was before 9am to get to my appointment at the hospital.

 

[Sara_H]

Seriously? Sounds ok to me. I just came back from Scarborough on Friday and we detoured to RHB to take pic's as my mate is doing the Coast to Coast route next year which finishes at RHB and we thought it would help motivate him if he had the end point to look at.

Whilst the Scarborough to RHB distance is not huge it was a good 25 minute car ride for us and at £3.25 a person I think that's not unreasonable.

In fact at £1.60 per child (alternative way of looking at it) it's amazing they make any money at all.
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The child single fare was £2.50, £4.90 for an adult.

Maybe I'm spoilt. I think these are outrageous pices for a 30 minute bus ride.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

I simply refuse to live anywhere that prohibits me from walking to work, or to the shops, as the most basic form of transport this is my requirement. I rarely drive although I own a number of cars and have no issues using public transport when required. When I take into consideration the costs of using my car which include, VED, servicing, fuel, oil, three, devaluation, parking costs it rarely works out cheaper than using public transport.

 

[RhythMick]

Just got back from a week's holiday near Bridlington, where the Park and Ride is stunning value. £3.50 all day parking fee gets up to SEVEN of you into town and back on the bus. For those who don't want town, the beach at the Park and Ride is truly excellent.