Bus Fares

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RE: Bus Fares

(25/02/2013 21:21)wirralbus Wrote:  The thing is its £2.50 single and £2.90 return from Birkenhead to liverpool on the train , so the bus fares are only just above the going rate .

I have heard people from Southern England commenting that our bus and train fares are dirt cheap.

They sure are cheap in Merseyside! In Doncaster, fares are very expensive - and, when I stayed there, First offered a poor evening service. By poor, I mean the majority of evening services were regularly cancelled and passengers, like myself, were FORCED to walk home (from Doncaster to Scawthorpe, in my case). I didn't keep spare taxi money during my day! If I remember correctly, it was about £4.00-ish for a fare from Scawthorpe to Doncaster - equivalent to a journey from, say, Old Swan to Liverpool...

I'll be honest - we're quite lucky in Merseyside to have so many services funded by Merseytravel. We're also lucky to have a flat fare system. Overall, a structured system could result in higher overall fares (depending on how the companies structured them). The increases may seem unfair, but they're actually not too bad (in comparison to Doncaster!).