Extended until 31st October 2023: Majority of Adult Bus Journeys capped to £2 (England) - then £2.50 until November 2024

I've never added it up, but I think I'd be driving a Porsche and having 5 star holidays three times a year, if I hadn't have had any.

Add to that that Germany has free nursery for all children and give 250 euro for child support. In the UK it's £150 for 2 children and you have to pay your nursery. I seriously wish I could speak German, I would have left this country

The taxes are going to all that free paracetamol your having up in Scotland.

there is an app that tells the exact location of every bus in an area.....what stop it is at, where it is on the road....and if walking 15 minutes is a hardship...lol (edited)

Always the same in London. One of their new tube stations costs more than the entire travel infrastructure in my local authority area..... They need to move the government North so they can at least sample the rest of the country.

But if we gift private companies monopolies they'll altruistically do the right thing and not gouge customers to benefit their shareholders.

That's why all the contracts go to Tory donors and friends because they can be trusted. Something something trickle down.

It's situational. Probably on the whole it's a positive, but where I am a lot of the single fares where already below £2. They have now put the prices above £2 and are introducing the govt £2 cap.

Coastliner to and from Whitby that would normally be like £12

And free bus pass when you 60

Reporting fraudulent activity
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Take photos of the driver & bus.

Participation in the bus fare cap scheme is voluntary, and some bus companies have chosen not to take part.

west midlands is one of the cheapest daysavers in the country, some single tickets are £8 out of the county!

This is true. It'll probably be extended again anyway or a lot of the bus companies will probably need a bail out, even with this massive scheme they are still doing fairly badly and without it routes would have to be cut or subsidised in another way. (edited)

There is a generic system bustimes.org with tracking most bus companies app have tracking

I agree. UK public transport is not great at all. I used to use the bus regularly back in the day, the monthly pass was acceptable but now it is just way too high. Even the train tickets are stupidly expensive. Just to drive from South to North and cost of fuel is cheaper than getting 2 different trains.

So are nationalised companies.

Wonderful

That's why I don't understand why this even getting hot

The definition of 'vocal minority'

Rather than what you suggest, the company would simply not run that "extra" bus at all and would sell it, saving the money on the driver and maintenance of the bus.

Private companies cut remote services because they don't make money on them and where circumstances are unlikely to change in the short term.

Whilst this initiative is great (in some ways) for the period up to the election, if governments were serious about wanting to "protect routes that passengers rely on for work, education and medical appointments, and to improve infrastructure" they would have a long term plan for that - this is the usual temporary sticking plaster approach.

Just as supermarkets can have fruit/veg for 19p at certain times of the year.Price increaseS multiple times too

Always the way.

I was part of my towns when they was considering the ideas of changing concession bus passes this was long time ago only few years after they switched to being national ones.

All the people on the panel that had used buses said need to get rid of restrictions like the times can travel etc or allow if you have carer to travel (surrounding towns had done this) but the people who had final say which was not many around 4 these people have never used public transport didnt have any clue about it out of 12 of us said no staying same too expensive.

These two points was on questions issued to public what they wanted and people explained why with reasons like hospital appointments so on mostly elderly but disabled people as well said the same thing.

We saw the break down of the costs the extra cost was not even 30 thousand a year (this data was taken form the other towns around which are similar numbers for how many have concession passes) it was a minor cost but we was told do not have the money.

The same year they spend close to a million on putting up water fountain which has a monthly maintenance cost of thousands as well (not even 2 years later they turned it off because of costs)

Used to be like £3.40 one way for me

At this point helping the bus companies is helping individuals. A lot of them are doing quite badly - National Express shares being down 50% over the last 12 months and 80% since covid shows how bad they are doing - and without govt intervention like this would probably either have to massively cut routes, get a bail out or over time go bankrupt. A lot of the bus companies aren't in a very good place and there doesn't seem to be any viable plans for a turnaround.

Agree.
i’m a single parent (father) working on minimum pay (above what the govt says I need to live on/be able to claim benefits). Not entitled to any help whatsoever. Apart from a 25% reduction in my Council tax. Full mortgage, bills and Child Maintenance. Leaves me with very little to live on every month. Like millions out there I guess. This scheme helps me when I collect/return my daughter to her mothers. The working person is definitely left to fend for themselves, paying through their taxes to help other people out. Ironically I’m a public servant working for the Govt. We aren’t all well paid.

Yes I know the scheme has to be funded somehow. Tax payers. (edited)

Same here. Shouldn’t be making it cheap

I'm a working person who travels 5 days a week to work and back and this saves me £10 a week and it benefits me as why would anyone buy a monthly ticket if you can get a daily ticket for £2 one way? i don't understand why you would buy a monthly ticket like i used to before this offer started when you can have this offer? (edited)

Anyone Remember bendy buses ?