Poll - Should Child Fares Increase?

[Stuharris 6360]

Children should pay 2/3 of the ADULT FARE, after all they take up a seat which an adult could sit on if the bus is full. Whatever happened to the rule that children who travel at reduced fare should not occupy a seat when adults are standing?

[Liberator9]

Children should certainly give up the seat to the elderly, or those are less able to stand.

[Ashley]

Just send out some shock tactic messages to the hoodrats

Stop being, loutish, foul mouthed, badly dressed, alcoholic, drug taking badly behaved little c#nts or we just wont carry you or you can pay adult fare. While your at it, go to school or get a job, clean up your mess and stop taking up three seats with your muddy shoes and so called music

Sorry lol

[Mike K]

Just send out some shock tactic messages to the hoodrats

Stop being, loutish, foul mouthed, badly dressed, alcoholic, drug taking badly behaved little c#nts or we just wont carry you or you can pay adult fare. While your at it, go to school or get a job, clean up your mess and stop taking up three seats with your muddy shoes and so called music

Sorry lol

To be fair, the above description could equally apply to many adult bus passengers too. Truth is, many kids are decent law abiding citizens (mine are certainly brought up to be so), unfortunately it's just the scum that you remember.

Seriously though, as a parent you would certainly think differently on the child fare debate. Imagine you have 3 kids who all get the bus to secondary school every day. Paying for 3 adult bus passes wouldn't be good and would encourage some to use the car to do the school run. Which let's face it is probably the single biggest contributor to rush hour traffic, and all the problems and costs associated with that.

[the trainbasher]

Personally I think that there should be a hard limit of no child fares 0930-1500 or 2000-end of service Monday to Friday  (the daytime ban only in operation during term time and Saturdays/Sundays 2000-end of service with or without an adult. Furthermore I think that for all secondary school children a smartcard should be required to access the child fare outwith the banned times.

Also all over 14s should pay adult fare, and a child fare ticket does not confir the right to a seat if required by a full fare paying passenger.

Plus the fare should be 1/4 off the adult fare too with the operators choosing the fare and not centro.

Centro should therefore not subsidise, at all, child fares

[Stuharris 6360]

To be honest, i think that the whole fares policy needs updating, surely you should pay more the farther you travel. Surely the current system of 2 stages for £1.80 and then the maximum fare of £2.10 kicks in, so if your on the 9 for example, from Stourbridge to Lye Cross it's £1.80 and then anywhere from The Hayes to Colmore Row it's £2.10, where is the sense in that?

Bring back the system where cost is based on distance travelled, and child fares, well maybe 50% off for the under 11s and 33% off for the 11 and under 16s.

[Trident 4194]

To be honest, i think that the whole fares policy needs updating, surely you should pay more the farther you travel. Surely the current system of 2 stages for £1.80 and then the maximum fare of £2.10 kicks in, so if your on the 9 for example, from Stourbridge to Lye Cross it's £1.80 and then anywhere from The Hayes to Colmore Row it's £2.10, where is the sense in that?

Bring back the system where cost is based on distance travelled, and child fares, well maybe 50% off for the under 11s and 33% off for the 11 and under 16s.

Totally agree