Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(14/12/2015 20:53)Dentonian Wrote:  AFAIK, It is still a legal requirement to make all fares available to passengers, although (surprising) very few passengers query fares. In return, the correct procedure for intending passengers is NOT to ask for a fare, but to State their Destination. As you will know Stagecoach tickets not only show the fare, but the boarding and alighting points, or at least the nearest fare stages.
You are right, the driver was not only unproffessional in his attitude to the passengers concerned, but also to you.

I think he had stated the stop he wanted to get off at rather than the fare price, but seemed to query the response from the driver simply claiming that on 3 occasions last week he was only charged £1.60 for the same journey.
What I don't get is why the driver let him on for £1.60 if that wasn't the correct fare then went on and on about fare evasion and travelling with the wrong ticket etc.

Your right regarding tickets having the boarding and alighting points but it was sometimes the case that drivers wouldn't move the fare stage on on the ticket machine so passengers would pay slightly more for a journey because the ticket machine was still several stops behind where the bus actually was - is this automatic now or do the drivers still have to manually move fares on?

I was on a 201 (funily enough Dentionan) when a group of women alighting complained that they had been overcharged, claiming they had boarded at Godley when thier tickets stated Hattersley so the driver simply took thier tickets off them and gave them thier fares back - that was last summer though!