2014 Fare Structure

[Rob H]

I have noticed that have started removing the £3.90 daysaver advertising from B7RLE's and Omnilinks presumably down do fare increases in January

I just saw a B7RLE from my window going past on the 241 without the £3.90 ad.

Well most B7RLE's at WN have had them removed but I have seen some B7RLE's at PN with it removed too

Most if not all of BY's Omnilinks have lost the £3.90 ads aswell and some of AG's B7RLE's have too I think 2107 is one of them :)

[vinh1000]

Is it gonna be £4 now for Daysaver and £4.30 nBus respectively I wonder?

[nitromatt1]

BC fare tables on the cab doors are being withdrawn. Or it might've been a one off? 4324.

4828 has lost its cab door fare table

[Trident 4609]

BC fare tables on the cab doors are being withdrawn. Or it might've been a one off? 4324.

4828 has lost its cab door fare table

Think 4828 was already without a fare table on the cab iirc. 2064 and 4561 are also without fare tables (Been like this for months now)

[JPC]

The Black Country and Coventry nBus Swift Smart Card direct debits increase £2.00 per month.
(source: here and here)

[notepanel]

A single fare going up to £2.10 according to the Express & Star

The comments underneath have quite a few people in support (I think the recent news articles on Government cuts may have been useful!), my favourite quote so far is:

Ryan Pitt  @Ryatagarasu 
@nxwestmidlands @ExpressandStar Fare increase because of £14.6m cuts is realistic. Yet people can spend around £3 on a drink at Starbucks?

[Roy]

The full NXWM fare changes are detailed here.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/transport-news/2013/12/13/bus-fare-increases-full-list/

[Liverpool Street]

The full NXWM fare changes are detailed here.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/transport-news/2013/12/13/bus-fare-increases-full-list/

Or on WWW.nxbus co.uk

[Stuharris 6360]

If it had been me, i would have altered prices as follows:-

Adult Maximum fare   - £2
Adult Short Hop         - Abolished
Birmingham City Hop - Abolished
Day Return (available
all routes)                  - £3.30
Daysaver                   - £4.20
Child Single Fare        - £1.30
Child Daysaver           - £3

[Liverpool Street]

Day Return would get abused, unless the driver withdraws a part of the ticket?

[Stuharris 6360]

Day Return would get abused, unless the driver withdraws a part of the ticket?

Maybe the driver could take the ticket off the customer and issue a zero fare ticket saying "RETURN TKT RETURN HALF" for the journey so that they have a valid ticket to finish the journey.

[nitromatt1]

Day Return would get abused, unless the driver withdraws a part of the ticket?

Maybe the driver could take the ticket off the customer and issue a zero fare ticket saying "RETURN TKT RETURN HALF" for the journey so that they have a valid ticket to finish the journey.

Other alternatives are stamping the ticket, or holepunching it, when boarding on the return journey

[Trident 4609]

Day Return would get abused, unless the driver withdraws a part of the ticket?

The drivers on WN 59 take the ticket, Tear it down the middle then they keep half of the ticket then the other half is given back to the passenger so they can't use it as a daysaver

[nitromatt1]

Personally I can't wait until Swift (or equivalent) becomes the sole method of paying for bus travel, it will do so much to reduce fraud. It will also be a lot easier to pay directly from a bank account, rather than searching the house for change/notes for tickets/passes.

[trident4370]

Not that it matters but IF it was upto me, The daysaver would still go up to £4, most people who don't have change just put that it anyway so I don't really see an issue with that price, I'd get rid of the city hop and just freeze the £2 fare as it is now.