Public transport: Fares

[ailbhe]

To get across town and back in an afternoon costs us £5.30 by bus - to get to Oxford and back would cost us £6.40 by train. And possibly be slightly quicker. If I buy the train tickets at the station, I can get unlimited Oxford bus travel for about £2, too.

I wonder if taimatsu would like to come? Must ask her when she gets back online.

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bus fares annoy me

[(Anonymous)]

Of course, that £5.30 gets you unlimited travel all over town all day ... which is not much consolation when all you want to do is go there and back. I'm not convinced abandoning return fares was a good idea!

The bus fare to my mum's old house was twice the train fare (1 stop). It doesn't really seem plausible that buses cost twice as much to run as trains.

asilon

Re: bus fares annoy me

[ailbhe]

No, adult+child busabout is £5.40. Family busabout is £6.50, which isn't bad, actually.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, forgot their weird pricing scale. You should have paid the extra 10p and stayed on the bus for a few trips back and forth, just to get your money's worth ;-)

I've been buying train tickets today. You can get to Bath (1 adult, 1 child) for £5.95. You have to pay it again to get back of course, but it seems better value than Reading Buses!

asilon

[taimatsu]

*makes happy faces* Yes yes yes!