Government announcement on bus fares

What solution do you think would work to help you and others in this situation that is effective and cost effective.

I'm not sure which bus company you use but single tickets on the Stagecoach app last for an hour so can be used on multiple buses. I travel on 2 buses regularly with one single ticket.

That must include trains/tube though.
If you only used buses it's £5.25.

I agree. This won’t make any difference to Londoners, it’s a benefit to others and that’s fine. Very few Londoners are getting to work for £1.75. My daily commute, within London, costs me £15.30.

It does vary obviously.
My point was just about the claim that "London is always cheaper" when it isn't.

In our village, we had buses until 2005 - they were scrapped under Labour!

Well I'm happy because I use the buses for work and this will save me £30 per month.

It’s a great idea, it encourages use of public transport and means less cars on the road and in the car parks

Were there buses there until the mid ‘80s, when the Tories deregulated them?

Dayrider where I live is £6.30.

Very hilly coastal town.

Scotland has free bus travel for under 22s, on production of a Young Scot card , and is trialling a £2 cap in the Highlands and Islands which are geographically vast. So AB’s announcement should take the wind out of the SNP’s sails on the bus front .

I get the frustration of having poor bus services in rural areas. But anyone who thinks their rural bus service should be on a par with TfL should consider how much it would cost per person. The reason that transport in London is so good is the density of population there, which would drive many a rural dweller to distraction. You can’t have everything.

Day 3 in the job and he’s announced 2
policies that will save a lot of people a few quid and still there’s moaning and criticism.

Give him a bloody chance to at least do a full week! Poor bloke won’t have even done his DSE assessment yet 😂

I live in Manchester, the £2 single trip and £5 daily cap has been in place since the buses were all taken over by the Bee network
I use a annual ticket that cost £800 . The improvement since the take over has been fantastic, beforehand we had loads of different companies running the same service . So I could get bus number 37 run by stagecoach during the day but then in the evening it was took over by Dimond which meant I'd have to buy another ticket . It use to cost me almost £7 a day now if I get a daily ticket it's £5 .
A annual ticket means its even cheaper.

Said to cost £500m which is a drop in the ocean - roughly £8 per person in the UK.

The interest on our whopping £3 Trillion debt is over £100 BILLION per year.

We can't penny pinch on things that really matter and that could get the country/people moving again, thus get the economy growing.

I thought everyone was saying that austerity didn't work! Surely those same people should be glad that a very small amount of public money is being spent to help people being more mobile and let people keep more of their money to spend on other things, in both ways to get the economy moving.

We really shouldn't sweat the small stuff that makes a lot of difference to some people.

When I lived in Lincolnshire we had one bus an hour from 8.00 to 18.00.and 3 on Sundays. 😒

I find it almost unbelievable that an announcement that people will now have access to more affordable public transport, has made so many people just irate that people in London might be better off to the tune of fifteen pence.

What a thankless task being a politician is.

Andy Burnham already introduced this in . Greater Manchester with the Bee network

Yeeeessss 😄

Keep all the dirty sex-pests locked up !

Yes !
That was my point.

Better than £6!

Didnt you choose where you live?

I was just going to ask how they are going to pay for this one??

Same. Maybe there should be a cap of some sort on taxi fares if you live where there is no bus route. I can see the pitfalls to that but it seems unfair that all the help is going towards those living in towns and cities whilst us "country bumpkins" are left behind.

I already walk 10,000-15,000 steps every day mostly as part of my commute which is two trains and a bus and takes over an hour. Adding an extra 20 minutes walking would be a pain in the arse.

You clearly have no idea how most Londoners live. We all have huge commutes, rent and car, parking/ULEZ charges are massive. I pay £16 every day to get to and from work. Bit shit when that’s over an hours wage.

Well in the middle of Parliamentary recess is not the right time. I would imagine he'll outline his programme at party conference and then to Parliament when conference season is over. Or something like that.