Bus One Day Saver Ticket INCREASING to £3.60

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Is that not a runabout ticket that you can use to Guildford? My grandson (under14) can get a return ticket from Guildford to Horsham for £1.80, I think it is. This same ticket would take him on an Arriva but from outside of Guildford near Slyfield to the centre and then on to Horsham but only if he uses Arrive buses. The problem he has is that if he uses the other company Safeguard? it costs him 1.20 to get from his home to Guildford Bus Station and the Arriva buses do not run to connect with each other. For him to get home from Horsham on a Sunday is horrendous, virtually impossible, as he has to change at Cranleigh and wait about 50 mins as again they do not connect.

Yes it's the Arriva West Sussex/Surrey day ticket and you can ride around all day with them for £5.70 if you want (as you can on B&H Buses for the £3.60 everyone is whinging about on here). The equivalent Arriva "runabout" ticket just within Horsham is £3 btw.

My underlying points are:
1) Despite the subsidies from West Sussex & Surrey CC's, it still costs nearly £6 for an adult to travel 5-6 miles by bus to the nearest town. Actually, Billingshurst is closer than either Horsham or Cranleigh but you can only get there by bus (or train) if you travel to Horsham first. The bus service to Billy isn't operated by Arriva though so it'll probably cost something like £10 all in.
2) The Arriva timetable is a nonsense and further encourages people, particularly those with jobs in Horsham and Guildford and train commuters, to use their cars.
3) Your grandson's travel difficulties are compounded by the service 63 from Horsham to Cranleigh being run by Metrobus on a Sunday (it's Arriva the rest of the week) and Arriva, who run the Cranleigh/Guildford leg, don't seem to give a s**t about integrated transport.

 

[Sonic]

As has already been said, it seems pointless when as soon as there's 2 of you, you may as well drive into town and pay car parking charges because it's cheaper.

What annoys me on the occasions when I do get a bus (usually the 5) is that they frequently bunch up so you wait 20-35 mins for one, and then 2 or 3 come at once and they start playing leapfrog at bus stops on the way into town.

Also those boards at bus stops lie. They don't say when the bus is due as the sign states, they say when it's coming. If they were honest, they would say that the bus was due 10 minutes ago.

 

[The Oldman]

Am I the only person who loves the buses in and around Brighton. I would never entertain taking my car into Brighton as it is far cheaper to jump on the no 40 in Haywards Heath to Churchill then 49 to Aldi in Portslade or get off in London Rd and jump on the 5B to Asda. Buses every few minutes what more could you want other than the fact that the No 40 is usually very busy.

Oh I forgot to say that I am over 60 so it means a free bus pass for me and the vast majority that travel from HH or BH to Brighton.

I think it's the free bus pass that does it BG. We use the 12 route 2 or 3 times a week to go into Brighton or Eastbourne from Seaford and it's a great service. My guess is that over 50% of passengers are over 60's like us.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

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.

Yeah, Coldean is heaven but went downhill when they dropped the No. 13 service....oh, & when I left there too.

 

[queens park pete]

I think it's the free bus pass that does it BG. We use the 12 route 2 or 3 times a week to go into Brighton or Eastbourne from Seaford and it's a great service. My guess is that over 50% of passengers are over 60's like us.

Not having a go, but one reason the tickets are going up is the bus companies are having to take more cash from paying customers as GB has failed to fully reimburse the bus companies for seniors journey costs.

As for expensive buses, try any area run by stagecoach- more like highway robbery.

B+H buses remain a bargain if you stock up on the £2.80 Savers online- cheaper than the Brussels day pass and cleaner than the ones I went onlast year!

 

[Notters]

Do people really get the train from London road to Brighton? It's 15 minutes walk, if that!

 

[BensGrandad]

Not having a go, but one reason the tickets are going up is the bus companies are having to take more cash from paying customers as GB has failed to fully reimburse the bus companies for seniors journey costs.

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I am not sure if the exact figure is correct, but when on a bus on holiday in Cornwall I got into conversatuion with a chap about the over 60s bus pass and he said he worked for Bath Council, no not Bellotti, and that the bus companys got 80% of the normal fare reimbersed. On the 2.35 no 40 from Churchill Sq to HH today there wasnt one person who paid cash that got on the bus during the entire journey and most times there was a minimum 30 people on the bus. Without the pass that bus would have been empty probably.

 

[London Calling]

In London the over 60's freebie has been paid by the London tax system, rightly so imho, more local authorities should have introduced its years ago as a basic right to our elderlies.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The bus companies get a percentage of the fare that would have been charged back from the local council. The problem is that central Government seriously underestimated how many journeys would be taken since the national scheme came in and the grants given to local councils doesn't cover what they have to pay out. It has been estimated that across Sussex there is a £6M shortfall in the first year of the schemes implementation.

 

[desprateseagull]

i thought B&H brought in the fixed fare (£1 originally!), to do away with the different zonings..

i do hope they renegoiate their fuel control, or will go under quite sharpish!

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Do people really get the train from London road to Brighton? It's 15 minutes walk, if that!

I sometimes do, when im in a lazy mood, but your right, it is only a 15 minute walk!