Bus One Day Saver Ticket INCREASING to £3.60

[Paxton Dazo]

If you went with mummy it would only cost you 20p on the bus

Nah, it's even 50p with her now..

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Nah, it's even 50p with her now..

plus the embarrassment of sitting next to her

 

[Mendoza]

Ahh, I take it you was there for a "buisness trip" ?

Not a business trip, it was CHEAPER to go in the business carriage which included all the free drinks and food, than a normal seat.

think it worked out £75 return to Brussels, and it being Belgium, the Eurostar ticket was valid on any train in Belgium too

 

[brightonlass2009]

Price tickets shouldn't be so expensive when the f***ing company is so shite. On Boxing Day we didn't even have a service over in Coldean, the 24's weren't running and neither were the 25's. The closest bus to us went to Molscoombe, where I wouldn' walk to, or Asda, and there was no f***ing way you were getting me to walk up Coldean Lane.

Our bus service is shit, they are just scamming money off of us. Bastards.

 

[One True BHA]

Price tickets shouldn't be so expensive when the f***ing company is so shite. On Boxing Day we didn't even have a service over in Coldean, the 24's weren't running and neither were the 25's. The closest bus to us went to Molscoombe, where I wouldn' walk to, or Asda, and there was no f***ing way you were getting me to walk up Coldean Lane.

Our bus service is shit, they are just scamming money off of us. Bastards.

That's a downright lie, try going anywhere else in the country and the majority of places are ten times worse and more expensive.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It then cost £20.16 for a single from London Victoria to Brighton on Sunday night

Mr Mendoza. Do you have a Network card? You can save 1/3, I think, for you and upto three passengers travelling at off-peak times. All for £20!

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Not a business trip, it was CHEAPER to go in the business carriage which included all the free drinks and food, than a normal seat.

think it worked out £75 return to Brussels, and it being Belgium, the Eurostar ticket was valid on any train in Belgium too

f***ing hell!!!

£99 return it cost me!!!

Mr Mendoza. Do you have a Network card? You can save 1/3, I think, for you and upto three passengers travelling at off-peak times. All for £20!

OR you can be really clever and completly beat the system, use all the cards you dont have, pretend your going FCC way, . Costs me £3.20 to get to Tottenham. ( That's INC the tube)

 

[maffew]

I was gob smacked to get on a bus on Sunday from Hove Station to Brighton, 3.80 return or something, thought it'd be about 2 quid

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

That's a downright lie, try going anywhere else in the country and the majority of places are ten times worse and more expensive.

do you OWN them or something?

 

[One True BHA]

No, that's the downright lie. I'd love to know the "majority of places" which charge more than £3.60 for a ticket.

The majority of places comment was more aimed at the regularity of service as almost everywhere i've ever been has not offered buses at as regular intervals as is the norm in Brighton & Hove.

A lot of places have more than one bus company which obviously do not accept bus savers bought on other firm's buses.

Middlesbrough, Guildford and Manchester all have the above and charge more than Brighton of the places i've been to in the last couple of months.

 

[One True BHA]

do you OWN them or something?

I wish.

 

[Biscuit]

Now I may be wrong but I was under the illusion that bus companies arrange for long term fuel contracts at fixed prices, so even if the price at the pump goes up it won't affect them (even if they pay a tad more to begin with). Now they raise the prices anyway and at a time when the cost of fuel is actually decreasing! Have B&H Buses actually given a reason for this?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

But did you go to the Turf Tavern, CB?

 

[One True BHA]

Well you can't really make comments like try going "anywhere in the country" and "the majority of places" and then back it up with just THREE!!

I don't disagree with you that Brighton buses are good for regularity and sheer number, but the price is nothing short of a disgrace, and I've never seen anything like it. I'll give you an example of my own: last week I was in Oxford and, not knowing it very well, accepted advice that it's impossible to park in the centre. So I, for the first time in years, got on a bus. I went to a slightly out of town park and ride where I parked within seconds, got on a bus that dropped me in the middle of the shops in about ten minutes, and the cost of all this? £2.00! When I'd finished shopping, I went back to the stop to find that a bus comes every 8 minutes (and sure enough, one came in about half of that). And don't anyone tell me that this sort of scheme doesn't work because there were LOADS of buses, operating THREE different routes, which were ALL packed with passengers. Now THAT, and not the B+H rubbish, is what I call a bus service.

The three examples I gave were specifically related to the area having more than one bus company, with a poorer service and at a higher price.

The 'try going anywhere comment, majority will be better' was related to the quality of service, which in my opinion is not topped in many places.

If you've never seen anything like it, it may well be because you caught a bus for "the first time in years" "last week". A lot of buses in Brighton come every 5 or 7 minutes and run throughout the night.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The fuel is paid for in advance at a set price and the price is factored in , when the cost of fuel goes down it just extends the date of the new fare increases. B&H buses are part of the Go Ahead group and as such this subsidiary turns over a tasty profit. Their "contract" is basically continuous as another company would need to compete on the same routes in order to take over from the present incumbent. In 2008 they have replaced older vehicles with new buses , 15 single deckers (8 are second hand from Metrobus) and 7 double deckers which has cost a small fortune.

Whatever the deal is with the fuel most other cities, nations in the developed world charge a LOT less for their public transport. They get their petrol from the same source/country. We are being ripped off when it comes to public transport. Other countries can do it better and cheaper and with integration. Why cant we?

 

[maffew]

Whatever the deal is with the fuel most other cities, nations in the developed world charge a LOT less for their public transport. They get their petrol from the same source/country. We are being ripped off when it comes to public transport. Other countries can do it better and cheaper and with integration. Why cant we?

think you meant less developed countries
I assume the reason is we get taxed so much on fuel (then bus companies maybe bump it up a bit on that excuse)

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It cost me EcuS 1,500 to take the Trole in Ecuador. Granted, disposable income is a great deal lower, but why isn't the bus service more affordable?

Britain could learn a great deal from a cheap, regular, consistent electric tram that serviced Quito.

Even the tram in San Francisco was much much cheaper and that was a real tourist pull.

Are those living in Brighton and Hove subsidising those that travel some distance, use their daily ticket regularly or the over 60s?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Wrong picture above and EcuS 1,500 was effectively 10p back in 1999 (they now use the dreaded dollar).