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LRT bus fares price increase

19 replies

curlygal · 08/01/2009 20:55

I just got a letter from lrt to inform me that my monthly bus pass will increase in cost from £37 a month to £42. Ouch.

Apparently fares are all going up - a single will be £1.50 and a day saver £3.00.

Credit crunch tastic.

Surely this flies in the face of encouraging people to be eco friendly and use public transport?

information on their website

www.lothianbuses.com/news/?fare-increases-from-18-january-2009-why-51.html

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beansmum · 08/01/2009 21:00

I remember when a single was 80p.

ChubbyChub · 08/01/2009 21:02

I remember paying 50p to get from my flat to work.

Robbing sods.

curlyredhead · 08/01/2009 21:03

Just got that letter too... ouch indeed. The bit about all low level buses by end of 2009 is good news though.

(This is my first post in the Edin local bit - must be the rain that leads to all the curly hair :0 )

mawbroon · 08/01/2009 21:04

Single is going up to £1.20
Day ticket £3
Child single 70p
Child day ticket £2.50

Get yourselves down the bus shop and buy all the city single tickets before they go up on the 18th!

beansmum, when I first moved to Edinburgh you could get the bus from Gorgie to Sighthill (the journey I used to do to college) for 40p

40p I tell you

40p

curlyredhead · 08/01/2009 21:04

Lol, x-posted so that bit in brackets makes even less sense than it did originally... I'll get me coat...

mawbroon · 08/01/2009 21:08

You know what though, I use the bus in the region of 4 to 8 times a day, at least 5 days a week, so it is still pretty good value really.

curlyredhead · 08/01/2009 21:08

I'm pretty sure that when I was in the brownies (25 years ago a childs fare was 10p - omg how old do I feel?!

Scotia · 08/01/2009 21:10

Mawbroon, did you go to Stevenson College then? I did an Access course there in 1999

mawbroon · 08/01/2009 21:22

No, I went to Napier.

It was a poly then....

Scotia · 08/01/2009 21:24

Ah I see. Are they knocking it down now? I passed it a couple of weeks ago and there were no windows in the building.

mawbroon · 08/01/2009 21:29

Oh are they? I heard that years ago and nothing came of it. I don't venture over that way any more since I moved from Gorgie

pigsickoncorona · 08/01/2009 21:54

dont use the bus anymore since the great pram debacle...not sure that has been sorted out...I take my car everywhere now

mawbroon · 08/01/2009 22:03

I don't know what happened about the pram thing. I only have a buggy on the bus when I am minding another little one, so have ds in backpack and other in buggy.

I sold my car in June and get the bus everywhere now, so now if I go anywhere with DH in the car, I get well pissed off looking for somewhere to park and faffing about getting ds in and out of the car!

pigsickoncorona · 08/01/2009 22:07

I cant even be bothered trying the bus again after being taken in to town by one bus driver and then left stranded by another on the way home

thanks driver..as they say!

no wonder passenger numbers are falling..anyway enough has been said on this subject already!

TheCrackFox · 08/01/2009 22:15

£1.20!!! Credit crunch my arse, they are just being greedy. They put it up by 10p last year. Bunch of chancers.

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curlygal · 09/01/2009 09:23

I think that they have backed down a bit on the whole "no prams allowed" thing. I got off the bus the other day to let a woman with one of those big three wheeler double buggies on so they must let them on now? (or maybe that was just a kind bus driver?)

I still take DS who is three in the buggy to get on the bus as it is quite a walk and sometimes we walk home or he likes to sleep. I am really paranoid about taking a buggy on the bus now - especially after reading some of the horrific child and parent hating comments on the scotsman website re the prams on the bus debacle. As far as I can I see what harm is there for a buggy to use the wheelchair space so long as you fully understand that you fold up your buggy or get off if a wheelchair user comes on?

Sorry I got the single fare wrong, £1.20 is not as bad a price increase. I only just got my bus pass as I am hoping to get DS out of the buggy soon and was quite shcoked as that is a huge monthly increase. I just went part time at work - in time for the cost of living to soar. ooops

OP posts:
nailpolish · 09/01/2009 09:26

if you look on their website there is a statement about pushchairs on buses

FairyLightsForever · 09/01/2009 18:03

It does depend very much on the driver, but if they look like they're going to say something I generally pre-empt it by saying that I will collapse it/ get off the bus if necessary (my big pushchair doesn't collapse easily!)and I haven't had any bother. Most drivers don't even say anything.

Scotia · 10/01/2009 16:48

My friend drives for LRT and he doesn't refuse to let anybody on with a buggy, but it's really the luck of the draw. I'm going to buy a sling for this baby, and I've got a small folding buggy for when he's old enough to sit in it.

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