Feel like a mug paying for buses in Wales

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CaptainArcher · 30/03/2025 23:05

I live in North Wales and the cost of a daily ticket on the bus is now £7.70 a weekly ticket is £28 now…

It seems like every time i board the bus I'm the only mug actually paying, i tap on and off with my bank card. Everyone else is a pensioner using their free bus pass, or people my age (30s) have a white pass card.. Which means they're on the sick

To make matters worse, i visit across the border sometimes to the Wirral and buses are so much more reasonably.. £2 for a single trip

I can drive bus i gave up cars a few years ago to save money and live a more simpler life

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StartAnew · 01/04/2025 20:50

CaptainArcher · 30/03/2025 23:26

It should be affordable.

Everybody should be paying.. and then maybe the ticket price would come down to a normal level.

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The council will be paying for the white card journeys, they are not free.

Tourist29 · 07/04/2025 09:18

Obvnotthegolden · 31/03/2025 00:33

My grandparents are certainly not poor. They've got a house worth half a million, tons of investments, a car, pensions @CaptainArcher

But the pensioners on the bus aren't like your grandparents, are they op?

i don't know the statistics but most pensioners are not as well off as your grandparents.

According to google North Wales is an area of wealth disparity, having some areas that are the poorest in the UK, and some wealthy areas.

Perhaps your bus is passing through some of these poorer areas where people haven't been able to get their sh*t together.

You sound privileged and entitled and lacking empathy.

I hope her grandparents leave everything to Age Concern 😀

Ninniwig · 07/04/2025 09:55

In England a bus pass must be applied for, along with proof of age, photo ID and address.
IF you use the card your local authority pays for your ride. If you don’t use your card you don’t cost the government a penny. We are restricted to travel after 9.30, quite rightly.
I don’t see a problem with anyone applying and getting a bus pass

Coffeeishot · 07/04/2025 10:03

nomas · 01/04/2025 19:02

Ok, she could be 50 then!

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Not too long to wait then!

BCSurvivor · 07/04/2025 10:23

I went to buy a bog standard day return bus ticket in Swansea on Saturday and it cost me £6.90 with NAT buses!!!
A day ticket that would only cover the very limited network of their own bus services would have cost me £9.20 😲

DinoLil · 07/04/2025 11:02

I'm in SE England. Single trips are £3 and a day ticket is £10.

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