Swift Card

[Trident 4194]

I've heard these swift pay and go cards are not very reliable, and often get rejected causing you to pay full price. Also a woman yesterday got on the x96 from primark merry hill to bus station one stop. She offered to put money, but the driver said just get on.

[B.C Driver]

If this was on the 14 route, I think I know the person, and the pass is fake

It was on the 61. I was fair, I told him to get in touch with Centro and gave him ample time, but he seems to think he can just keep showing it again and again and again...
I understand if there's a fault with the card, it's not the passengers fault, but there comes a time limit if they don't bother getting a new one. (Just to clarify - I am talking about the disabled pass).

[Bryan]

I've heard these swift pay and go cards are not very reliable, and often get rejected causing you to pay full price. Also a woman yesterday got on the x96 from primark merry hill to bus station one stop. She offered to put money, but the driver said just get on.

I have a Swift e-Daysaver for use on NXWM buses and having used it on about twenty different days, travelling on an average of about six buses a day, I have been waved on by the driver on about eight or nine occasions whilst using it.

As the card had been confirmed as valid on the first journey on each day, and worked on other buses during the day, I was under the impression the fault was with the individual card reader on the vehicle concerned.

[Cheese]

Just used my Swift PAYG card on the Metro to buy an Off Peak day saver for only £4.80, seems like it is also valid on the bus as well which is rather good, don't know if it's all buses or just NX, but whenever I have bought a £6.20 bus/metro ticket before I have generally only used NX buses with it (and it was at a weekend) so that looks like a big fare saving to me of £1.40.

[ARBB]

Just used my Swift PAYG card on the Metro to buy an Off Peak day saver for only £4.80, seems like it is also valid on the bus as well which is rather good, don't know if it's all buses or just NX, but whenever I have bought a £6.20 bus/metro ticket before I have generally only used NX buses with it (and it was at a weekend) so that looks like a big fare saving to me of £1.40.

NX bus and Metro £5 for anyone without Swift

[JoNi]

I had hoped to post a hyperlink to Centro 2016 fares guide having obtained a paper copy, but the a search of the website proved fruitless, despite googling it. That only led me to find out that Arriva had frozen and reduced a lot of fares in the Black Country!

[PM]

I had hoped to post a hyperlink to Centro 2016 fares guide having obtained a paper copy, but the a search of the website proved fruitless, despite googling it. That only led me to find out that Arriva had frozen and reduced a lot of fares in the Black Country!

Find it hard to find/view Arriva daily fares online tbh... Didn't know they'd reduced fares though

[JoNi]

Found Arriva hyperlink
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/midlands/updates/get-around-for-less-in-the-centro-area-from-2-january-2016/&ved=0ahUKEwiinMm1oY7KAhVH0RQKHVZXBBQQFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNEhtkF9NHGIhOyJdQpkrA1qMzUJww

[PM]

Odd pricing before changes if the Black Country 4 weekly was £50 but 4 1 week tickets would be 4 x £11.30 so £45.20. Must be one of the few examples I've seen where it was more expensive to commit yourself for a longer period of time. Thank goodness they've changed that!!

Now at least they're incentivising the 4 week ticket. For too long in the West Midlands all they pushed was the 4 week saver at £60 which was expensive if you only wanted the West Midlands zone.

The real issue for them is lack of brand loyalty as unlike Diamond in say West Brom/Walsall, Arriva West Midlands don't really have a network of routes that fits together particularly well...

[ARBB]

Odd pricing before changes if the Black Country 4 weekly was £50 but 4 1 week tickets would be 4 x £11.30 so £45.20. Must be one of the few examples I've seen where it was more expensive to commit yourself for a longer period of time. Thank goodness they've changed that!!

Now at least they're incentivising the 4 week ticket. For too long in the West Midlands all they pushed was the 4 week saver at £60 which was expensive if you only wanted the West Midlands zone.

The real issue for them is lack of brand loyalty as unlike Diamond in say West Brom/Walsall, Arriva West Midlands don't really have a network of routes that fits together particularly well...

I had a look at their journey planner earlier, over 5 hours from Dudley to Birmingham

[PM]

I had a look at their journey planner earlier, over 5 hours from Dudley to Birmingham

It'd certainly be a fun journey!

[Stuharris 6360]

Is the one day nBus ticket available via Swift yet?

[Ashley 60171]

It'd certainly be a fun journey!

I make it Dudley - Bilston - Bloxwich - Cannock - Lichfield - Tamworth - Birmingham. Which doesn't sound too bad only if you want to make a day of it. On Sundays you'd have to go via Wolverhampton, not Bilston or Bloxwich.

[Dom]

I make it Dudley - Bilston - Bloxwich - Cannock - Lichfield - Tamworth - Birmingham. Which doesn't sound too bad only if you want to make a day of it. On Sundays you'd have to go via Wolverhampton, not Bilston or Bloxwich.

Only a few quid as well

[Ashley 60171]

Only a few quid as well

Only £1.80 more than just going as the crow flies.