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My son has just paid for bus ticket with a twenty pound note...

281 replies

Miserylovescompany2 · 17/09/2017 08:54

The driver issued a ticket and stated he didn't have enough change - he told my son that he (my son) would have to go to the depot for his change.

All my son has is the issued ticked - it doesn't state how he paid? The depot won't refund him.

Surely it's the drivers responsibility to have change in the first instance.

What would you do?

He is still on the bus as I type...

OP posts:
Creambun2 · 18/09/2017 19:33

Lets face it the regions need to get sorted and introduce contactless like london. Some provincial towns are 70s time warps.

PotteringAlong · 18/09/2017 19:42

We have contactless payments on buses in the north east!

jennymac31 · 18/09/2017 19:56

In Bristol if the bus driver doesn't have enough change then you get given a change ticket, which you have to take to the bus station in order to retrieve your change. On occasions the bus driver might be able to give you the change when you get to your stop but most drivers are strict and go by the change ticket stance.

BeatriceBeaudelaire · 18/09/2017 20:09

Does the ticket not have an 'owed on' amount - that's what they used to give me in Lancashire. Then I'd either use it for other bus tickets or get change from the depot

BeatriceBeaudelaire · 18/09/2017 20:10

Also people saying it's 'exact change only' that wasn't the case in either the town I lived in in Lancashire or in Leeds

TakeAnadin · 18/09/2017 20:12

He should have asked him to step out of the bus, the drivers are not expected to carry much change and there are always posters everywhere to tell you to have the correct fare. Your son's at fault.

KnowsStuff · 18/09/2017 20:45

Contactless payment removes security risk of carrying change. 2017 basic technology...

manicmij · 18/09/2017 20:46

The driver should just have taken DS name and address and would be up to depot to sort out or your son could go there and pay for ticket. How old is son?

BarbaraofSevillle · 18/09/2017 20:56

public transport in the regions is a 1970s timewarp?

No wonder when spending in Yorkshire is not even a tenth of what London gets Hmm

www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/new-transport-figures-reveal-london-gets-1-500-per-head-more-than-the-north-but-north-west-powerhouse-catching-up

GladGran · 18/09/2017 21:00

Exactly, Cherie.
What was a schoolchild doing with a £20 note - asking to be robbed? Have some consideration. What if every child got on with a £20 note, or even a £10 note? You and he must know what the fare is. You sound very privileged.

Creambun2 · 18/09/2017 21:04

Seeing as London provides over 30% of the whole of the UK's tax revenues then damn right there should be spending on London's transport and infrastructure.

EC22 · 18/09/2017 21:10

My breasts are quite literally funbags, I can't orgasm without them.
Fed all my children with them for a couple of years, I appreciate them for all their purposes.

EC22 · 18/09/2017 21:10

Wrong thread Blush

YourFace · 18/09/2017 21:11

What?!!!!

Have just read the first post and the one above...nothing in between. Looks like the conversation moved on....?!!

MrLovebucket · 18/09/2017 21:12

[shock Grin Shock

Confused --->

FloControl · 18/09/2017 21:14

EC22. I'm tempted to ask if you use your breasts as a means of bus fare payment. But I won't Wink.

EC22 · 18/09/2017 21:15

Haha! Not sure that would wash these days, perhaps in my yoof.

BitchQueen90 · 18/09/2017 21:20

Glad it all got sorted in the end.

I get the bus to work every day and to be honest I do think it's the responsibility of the passenger to have the right change, or near enough. My bus gives change but I always try to have the right money ready.

Some of our buses have the contactless cards that you can top up online (I'm in a commuter town in between 2 cities). Unfortunately the one I get is not that far into the future yet.

Waney · 18/09/2017 21:30

EC22 I'd like to know what thread your post was meant to be posted to 😂

goose1964 · 18/09/2017 21:36

Our local bus company issues a change ticket which you hand over at the office and they give you your change. I can't believe people think buses take cards it's cash or app here

Polarbearflavour · 18/09/2017 21:45

I was on a bus in Hampshire today and the buses actually did contactless! I was surprised. Bristol doesn't do contactless but they do have a mobile app.

ManagerMan · 18/09/2017 21:48

They dont have space for a lot of change - and months ago (6 at least in my area) they announced they would only take large notes IF they had change, that then changed again to "If you pay with a large note, and the driver has no change, you will be given your ticket as well as a ticket that will allow you get change from our depot"

To be fair it's common sense (or you would think it should be!) to get the right change, or a much smaller note, unless you're paying for a bigger fare.

If your fare is £1 to £5 - then coins should suffice. Or a £5 note. You shouldn't be paying with £10's and £20's unless you're getting a weekly ticket that costs over £10 or a monthly that costs over £20

AnneGrommit · 18/09/2017 21:56

To be fair I think it's common sense that a business that takes cash should have change available. Buses throughout the seventies and eighties managed to do this just fine.

Pinky04 · 18/09/2017 22:09

Bus companies do issue 'Change tickets' - First Bus does in Bristol, but he should be able to use it on his next journey and collect the change then.

NoahBalboa · 18/09/2017 22:12

So in the end what happened? Did he go to the depot? Did he get his change? Curious to know x

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