To be pissed off about the bus prices???

[colditz]

I had a lot of shopping to get home today, and had a friend with me.

The bus prices have jumped up so much that it is cheaper for two adults and one child (over 4 you see) to get a TAXI home than it is to pay two adult bus fares - which given the walk to the bus station and the walk from the bus stop, is only just over half the journey the raxi will make door to door!

How do they justify this? They blamed it on the price of petrol - but taxi drivers have this issue too, and they seem to cope fine.

I shan't be getting the bus again unless it's just me

It costs me £1.05 to travel 3/4 of a mile and then it's another quarter mile walk home. I can manage the quarter mile easily, but have incredibly bad ankles which get worse after much further walking, especially after a full days work. So no, yanbu to be teed off.

I live in London so it's a flat £1.10 fare to travel anywhere (on an Oyster card). But I got the bus when I was back at my dad's the other month and I cannot believe how expensive regional and provincial bus services are. It's eye watering!

YADNBU

If i were to go into town with Manshape and DS2, then it'd cost me over £12 in bus fares alone!!

YANBU. I paid about four quid each way to go a few miles on the Isle of Wight when visiting parents. Cheaper and more convenient to drive.

The train to work where I live is £6.50 return (about 8 miles - 1 or 3 stops, 8 to ten minutes on train depending on whether it's a fast or slow one). Even with the petrol prices as they are it's still cheaper to drive.

I am hoping to go on my bike soon though, at least once or twice a week.

madonnawhore - £1.30 now

YANBU.

I live in London and use an oyster card which makes it much cheaper. I'm shocked at the price when I go elswhere

'I live in London so it's a flat £1.10 fare to travel anywhere (on an Oyster card).'

Its actually £1.30 now. Grrr at inflation! :(

yes the IOW is notoriously expensive for short one-off journeys BUT they do great deals on bus passes/weekly tickets etc - I think a weeks ticket for a family of 5 was £40 and we went absolutely everywhere on the island from one corner to another by clean, eco friendly, efficiently timetable buses - no car parking to worry about, no fuel prices - we must have saved a fortune

Yanbu

YANBU. IMO public transport should be so cheap that the idea of driving is ridiculous.

Bus and train fares round here are ludicrous.

leeloo1 is it £1.30 now?! Fucks sake.

In reading, Berkshire
£1.70 adult single

£1.20 child single

Its cheaper to drive

£2.20 in London if you pay cash on a bus. Grave robbers!

Why not just get a taxi then? Or drive?

I have boycotted public transport (buses/trains/tubes/trams) for as long as I can remember. They are all hopeless in this country and I refuse to be parted with my money for such a dire service (especially when people have the audacity to complain about other women having prams).

If the bus is too expensive, don't get the bus.

Last time I made the 5 mile each way journey into Durham by bus, it was over £6 return. It's cheaper for me to pay the postage for somewhere like Next than actually visit my local store by public transport.

£2.70 to go a mile here in not particularly rural countryside. YADNBU.

YANBU I really don't understand why the government doesn't do some kind of tax-relief on fuel prices and price capping on bus fares in order to encourage more people to make use of bus services, would stop so many unnecessary car journeys into city centres across the country.

YANBU. It's £1.30 flat fare here, which would be fine if it was a fast and reliable service, but the service is shocking. There should be a bus every ten minutes (every 8 mins at peak times) from the end of our road but I am often waiting 25-30 mins, which in the morning, trying to get work is SO frustrating!

Yanbu I paid £3.10 for a trip to town yesterday, only to get practically shoved off by the driver with my baby and then he drove off with my change bag (weird story) just under halfway through the journey.
That's after waiting 50 minutes for a bus that could get me on with a buggy, they were the old ones that don't have spaces for buggies/wheel chairs but aren't insured for you to fold it and sit at a seat. Anyway, rant over, Yanbu, buses here are shit.

Extortionate really! It cost me more in bus fares to get to the hospital from where I live than a taxi. Its £1.85 to go from Emerson Valley in MK (where I live) to the town centre what a rip, I would drive if I had a car, so much for encouraging people off the road.

£4.90 to go 7 miles into town and back here. Stagecoach have a monopoly in rural areas in Devon and they abuse it whole-heartedly.

ps: I am channeling our local MP to become a thorn in the side of the bus company re other issues such as speeding. Nothing has happened yet. They are a law unto themselves. By their own admission, 12% of their buses are speeding through our village (at speeds in excess of 45 mph by my reckoning)- the local people think it's probably more like 90% of them.

And another friend who lives 1 mile from the city centre says it would cost £10 for her to take her three children (aged 4, 6 and 8) into town and back from where she lives.

yanbu
it's the same here as well - unless you are a pensioner on a bus pass or an individual travelling alone, there's no reason to get the bus - taxi door to door and it's cheaper
madness madness madness

To the city and back here is £7.50 or £5 single. No children's fares either. You need to remortgage to get on the bus. However I'm going to London on a coach next month for £15 return (3hrs each way).