2017 Fares

[JoNi]

Funny, how the peak fares go up, after all they represent a captive audiance although it's usually presented as a way of reducing overcrowding.
Delayed boarding bus the other day at 7am when passenger in front of me asked for a £4 Daysaver!
Fares could have been frozen as I'm sure adoption of smartcards by NX will increase revenue.

[Tony]

Funny, how the peak fares go up, after all they represent a captive audiance although it's usually presented as a way of reducing overcrowding.
Delayed boarding bus the other day at 7am when passenger in front of me asked for a £4 Daysaver!
Fares could have been frozen as I'm sure adoption of smartcards by NX will increase revenue.

Why will the adoption of smart cards increase revenue? Every passenger that swaps will be paying less, and those people that currently overpay through not having the correct change will no longer overpay

[markcf83]

Day nbus up 20p off peak price frozen

Thanks for that. Will be most helpful when I'm in Birmingham in May.

[JoNi]

Why will the adoption of smart cards increase revenue? Every passenger that swaps will be paying less, and those people that currently overpay through not having the correct change will no longer overpay

Out of date tickets (I think they are called products) on smartcards are immediately detected
End of scratchcards will collect more revenue from the likes of a female who sat opposite me on a 37 who scratched it off when the revenue squad boarded. She'd already done the year in advance!
Passback. A girl on 20 dropped her pass on floor so that a girl behind could pick it up and use it.

[winston]

E&S have picked up the story on the Jan fare increases, at least they've finally changed the picture.....
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/transport-news/2016/12/15/passengers-face-increase-in-fares-for-midland-metro-and-buses/

[Gareth]

Has the peak short hop been scrapped? I notice it now says £1.50 for off peak, but no mention of a peak time equivalent.
I'm also unclear of the city hop, is this just an increase from £1 to £1.50 at all times of day? Frozen on the Metro at £1 though 😃

[Stu]

Is there an official link yet?

http://nxbus.co.uk/west-midlands/news/national-express-west-midlands-fares-changes-2017

Has the peak short hop been scrapped? I notice it now says £1.50 for off peak, but no mention of a peak time equivalent.
I'm also unclear of the city hop, is this just an increase from £1 to £1.50 at all times of day? Frozen on the Metro at £1 though 😃

The peak Short Hop was scrapped at the start of this year.

[Gareth]

And so it was! Thanks Stu. I wonder why I never noticed that last year. Possibly as I'd just got my swift card, so any kind of cash fare was irrelevant to me.

[vinh1000]

Used to get City hop there and back and now it seems cheaper to get a monthly direct debit :-(

[Stu]

The people losing out are the ones who regularly buy cash fares and don't realise how much they could save by switching to weekly/monthly tickets instead.

My NX Regional Faresaver Direct Debit goes up £2 to £56.50 from next month.

£56.50 x 12 months = £678 for the year

£678 ÷ 52 weeks = £13.03 per week
£678 ÷ 364* days = £1.86 per day (*no services on Christmas Day of course)

To me, this still represents excellent value for money, considering I catch 2 buses every Monday to Friday to get to and from work, and then I'm still using buses at the weekend.

[GeminiFan1991]

I remember when I was a uni student and I took advantage of NX's 12 month student pass which was like £3XX a year !

Steal of the century if you ask me !