Single £2 Adult Bus Fare Cap (England) - Extended until December 2024

London has a TFL cap of £1.75 for a single ticket no matter the distance: tfl.gov.uk/far…res

Also if you catch another bus within an hour of tapping, you won't be charged (edited)

Children tickets are capped at £1, so, yes, they save subsidised children tickets.

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Given it was meant to go up to £2.50 at the end of this month, I'd say so.

And yet CEO pay and company dividends keep getting better.

It's almost as if the private sector prioritises profit over public need, isn't it?

My area still has all the previous tickets available at the same prices. The bus drivers regularly will tell you its cheaper to buy 2 singles if doing a return that works out a little bit more. Day tickets still available too.

Take the X38 from Plymouth to Exeter, it's £2

So the government will subsidise the bus companies and the country goes further into debt so we can pay out shareholders. Bring back into public ownership along with utilities.

Essentially they pay the bus companies every time someone buys a ticket.

Similar to how the old person's bus pass works.

I get the bus nearly every Sunday now, go into town, get a paper, coffee, baguette for lunch. I never used to go anywhere on Sunday's before as it was £7.40 for a return, expensive coffee and paper.

Nearly all the busses I get/intend to get, turn up, a seat for me too.

England doesn't have a devolved government, so the UK government is the only government for England

Very much like my local one. It's a lottery if it runs.

The previous deal was posted on the 21st August (hotukdeals.com/dea…010), hotukdeals only allows reposts where there are changed terms after 2 months, so I'm assuming for that deal an update was all that was allowed on the 6th October.

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100% agree!

I hear furthermore I automatically think you’re from south London or head of the chess club … am I close ? (edited)

I obviously don't read enough, as not known by me, so thanks for the heads up OP.

Kids don't generally have money. They usually only have their parents money. Increasing bus fares for kids just means the parents will have to give them more cash and I doubt buying tickets with someone elses money is going to teach them more respect.

With the government-in-waiting promising to renationalise failing rail companies one would hope prices will drop across all public transport. They certainly cannot do a worse job than our PM who travels everywhere by helicopter in his protected bubble.

I hope the north appreciates the little scraps given to it like this.

Certainly a logical decision if you're trying to take cars off the road and go greener etc as the gov claim they are.

Trains are ridiculously overpriced too

Yes because thats fair, increase peoples taxes so people can get cheap bus travel

You get to keep your 2 quid if it doesn't. Win-win!

£5 a day is fair.

Sounds exactly something Stagecoach would do.

The reality is the government do not want to encourage car use, especially petrol/diesel cars.

Subsiding busses helps the poorest and most vulnerable most, subsidising fuel costs isn't anywhere near as targetted.

This also isn't a price cap, this is a subsidised price. This (like a fuel subsidy would be) is funded by taxes so we are all paying for it, just in a slightly different way.

I wish, all these ULEZ zones, congestion charges, rise in insurance costs, do we really think they’re doing this to help the environment? It’s a way to get money in their own pockets and to “encourage” us to use the public transport that no one can afford

There is an old man on this site that used to pay a groat for the bus to work.
He knows who he is.

Although most people commuting by bus will have a season ticket of some sort, rather than buying 2 singles every day, so it's unlikely to especially benefit them.

Well people have to live somewhere, blame Thatcher for selling off the council housing.

Wow you’re complaining of having to pay £4 for a bus fare.

As I posted above, this is an essential policy as most of the bus operators are close to bankruptcy with aging infrastructure requiring huge investment, loss making routes, low passenger numbers (even with this scheme), rising fuel costs and incredible amounts of debt that with the current interest rates they can't afford.

This scheme isn't done out of the goodness of the governments heart or to win votes, it's done to prevent the bus companies collapsing and the taxpayer having to bail them out. It's probably a fairly economical way to do it tbh, just enough to keep the operators afloat without the need for the taxpayer to take the huge burden that a nationalised bus service could cost.

Sounds a bit like socialism that. Why do you hate private businesses so much? It'll never catch on.

To give cheaper travel. I would have thought that was obvious.

Be nearer a fiver I reckon by the end of the decade, if not more.

Except the bus companies are drowning in debt and even with this subsidy many are still on the verge of bankruptcy. I'm not sure we really want to be nationalising loss making companies tbh.