Bus One Day Saver Ticket INCREASING to £3.60

[Mendoza]

Whats up with that, especially with the fuel prices coming down?

Poster on the bus said it starts Sunday (11th January), but you can buy them for £3 on line.

But some random journeys like Hove Station to Hove Town Hall the prices have been slashed from £1.80 to £1

There will also be a new TOURIST fare for £1 between Brighton Station and The Pier

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Absolute joke, it's almost cheaper to get a taxi if there's more than 2 of you. Fuel prices have gone DOWN aswell!!

Just think how popular buses were when it was a pound anywhere and 1.60 for a saver... They're digging their own grave...

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

... and the tourist fee is a joke, that's not going to encourage repeat journeys and more custom, it's just going to stop people walking to the pier and spending money in shops on the way there!

grrrumble grumble...

 

[clippedgull]

Sadly that's what happens when you have a situation where there is no competition for services

 

[trueblue]

The buses are an absolute joke.

When I moved back to Brighton five or so years ago, it was 70p anywhere. Which is handy when you live a five minute bus ride, but twenty minute walk from the station. Now, it's ludicrously expensive. In fact, if it's too cold/wet to walk into town, I'm now better off driving and parking on Churchill Square.

As far as I can tell there have been NO improvements whatsoever to the service throughout the price rises... well, maybe the electronic signs, but that's it. They haven't even implemented any sort of Oyster card or 'pay at the stop' system, which would speed up journeys immensely.

I hope they really struggle as people cut back. If it was down to me, there'd be some sort of integrated system where the ludicrous parking fees are used to subsidise public transport... but I suppose that'll never happen as nobody will be making a fat profit any more.

 

[Cian]

I was shocked at how much B&H buses cost for what were basically short-hop journeys, you can get a 90 minute unlimited start (as many journeys beginning in a 90 minute period) ticket here for less than then £1.80 standard B&H fare; and that covers a much bigger city too.

Is there no regulation for city buses any more?

 

[Mowgli]

Another rise? So pricey now im glad i walk everywhere, saving a tiny fortune

 

[desprateseagull]

sorry, posted to wrong thread. just ignore me...

 

[Mendoza]

Service & Fares News
Details of special promotions for services as well as fares and tickets and general news can be found below.

£1 fare makes a comeback
Hundreds of bus journeys will become cheaper in the New Year as new short hop fares are introduced across the city for a £1. Popular journeys such as Hove Station to Hove Town Hall, Downs Park to Portslade and Fiveways to London Road will reduce in price from the current citywide standard fare of £1.80 and are just some of the journeys included in the new scheme.

There will also be a new tourist fare between Brighton Station and Churchill Square, Brighton Pier or the Royal Pavilion for just £1 to attract the hundreds of city visitors arriving by train who haven’t taken advantage of the cheaper combined train and bus ticket also now available. The standard fare for journeys in the central area from Palmeira Square to Edward Street and Preston Circus will be £1.50.

Increasing numbers of city bus passengers buy their travel to last for a minimum of a day, taking advantage of extra value prices available from buying in advance. The price of the one-day SAVER ticket purchased from bus drivers will increase by 10p to £3.60 from 11 January but the price purchased on-line is being held at just £3 as well as the £3.20 price being frozen for tickets bought from shops. The aim is to encourage even more people to buy their travel in advance at cheaper prices. Only a third of bus journeys in the city now involve a cash transaction and the Company aims to decrease this even further.

There has been a huge growth in passengers taking advantage of extra value ticket prices available on-line. Paying for bus travel in this way is not only cheaper but it speeds the bus journey up with less cash handling.

At the end of November over 10,000 weekly tickets were sold as cheap as £7 in a hugely successful promotion with The Argus newspaper. This was followed up in December with another price promotion offering bus travel for £1 a day throughout January for on-line purchasers. More price promotions are planned for 2009 offering extra value travel.

Details of which bus journeys will be available for the new Short Hop £1 fare are available here. http://history.buses.co.uk/pdfs/shorthop.pdf

 

[The Spanish]

whatever happened to the ACE RIDER??

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

WHAT?!?! f*** that, i'm staying in southampton, where it's 120 quid for the year!

 

[One True BHA]

Bus savers are more expensive in a lot of places including Guildford, Manchester and Middlesbrough, where there are more than one company so savers are only valid on particular buses, which is a horror. The bus service here is top notch and only feels expensive as it used to be so ludicrously (relatively) cheap.

 

[London Calling]

90p for all bus journeys in london with a maximum cost of £2.50 for the day

and the Oyster a prepaid electronic card is convenient, cheap and has really quickened up travel

 

[CHAPPERS]

Oyster Cards are BOOM TING.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

when i was down there for christmas i found it much better to get the TRAIN to and from town

the buses are way too expensive for a poor lad like me

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

90p for all bus journeys in london with a maximum cost of £2.50 for the day

and the Oyster a prepaid electronic card is convenient, cheap and has really quickened up travel

Isn't the Oyster card being replaced as the company running the system lost out in the tendering process for the new contract ? Whoever takes over will use the current system but it will be called something else and the cards will be replaced over a period of time whilst it is being re-branded.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Whats up with that, especially with the fuel prices coming down?

Poster on the bus said it starts Sunday (11th January), but you can buy them for £3 on line.

But some random journeys like Hove Station to Hove Town Hall the prices have been slashed from £1.80 to £1

There will also be a new TOURIST fare for £1 between Brighton Station and The Pier

The short hop journeys that will only cost £1 are a rip off as previously on some journeys the return journey was included (known as there and travel home free) on a £1.80 ticket.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

My weekly bus ticket only costs £8 but there again I do live up north.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Nothing for me in the pound fares I would have thought a Dyke Road Tavern to Brighton Station would have been in order or a Preston Drove to London Road Ladbrokes (treble odds lucky 15) but no!!!!!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Nothing for me in the pound fares I would have thought a Dyke Road Tavern to Brighton Station would have been in order or a Preston Drove to London Road Ladbrokes (treble odds lucky 15) but no!!!!!

If B&H buses took you on as a cleaner you would then get free bus travel