Bus Fare Cap Rise

I wonder what percentage of workers have to pay for parking and also whether it's a lot higher in certain parts of the country

 

Yes mate ... unlimited travel and weekends.

 

I have a bus pass. But chose to go into town a couple of times per week. Mainly by car.
Admittedly more convenient. If I parked all day £5 + petrol, wear and tear. I know lots that do street parking and some companies have private car parks. But in this instance it's the couple of occasions that are more affected not workers.

 

Nobody seems to have mentioned the fact the £2 cap was only funded until the end of 2024 by the last government that were slinging our money to their mates and down the drain...

£3 is a rise but still far cheaper than it would be without a cap.

The financial situation of this country was and is dire or have people forgotten that and expect everything for minimum cost.

Short term give aways by the last lot don't work as we have seen.

I'd much rather pay a little bit more and be able to get the NHS backlog down long term or support investment in long term jobs to give our kids a future.

 

I'm in blackpool as we speak. To park outside the hotel. No car parks in close range. Street parking. £11 per day.
To park near my sons in london is nay on impossible due to residential parking. Car parks are astronomical. So park around half a mile away if I get lucky.
Then I'm hit with emissions charges . £12:50 per day. Each day the car moves. So it stops where it is till i come home.

 

It makes me so sad that people still think a country’s finances are like a households finances. Making poorer people colder in winter or have to pay 50% more to get to work is simply a choice. It will not fund anything in the nhs which wes streeting is merrily selling off to his highest bidding donors. Things could be so much better but while ever we’re so blind that people can write the sentence “the country is skint” it’s only going to get worse.

 

If fairs go up to £3 instead of the £2 fair now, it's back to taxi journeys for me when we go out without the car.

Taxi already only 50p more expensive than the bus for where we normally go and you get dropped door to door.

 

Plus road tax and insurance.

 

Whats up with you man you like a dog with a bone I've just said I bow to your greater knowledge but you keep on, Read what I said in the 1st instance = "You are right redrum we should be encouraging more people to use public transport" and "to be honest I don't know anyone who uses public transport to go to work" of which I don't. so what's your gripe with me are you saying I'm a liar, I never said anything about people struggling to get to work without a bus, that goes for Jamdrop and the others as you brought them in on your gripe with me over nothing - honestly!.

 

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Where did I say you were a liar? You said you don't know anyone and I said I did and more likely to be used in cities where more people rely on transport ..

 

Are you real I said "Do you think I'm a Lier" That's the difference between what you said "Where did I say you were a liar "
Thats my last words on this as I can not talk to someone who makes things up to suit their point of view.

 

Expecting petrol duty to be increased as well, so all forms of travel to have price increases.

 

Unfair comparison as those things are for all journeys. Specifically for work it's a ten quid a week 50% rise for people like jobless going to interviews and job centre appointments and people going to work.

Bus folks can't be workers as Keir said working people wouldn't be affected.

 

Are bus fares a tax?

 

• Hamlet “Whose grave is this sir?”
• First Gravedigger “Mine sir”
• Hamlet “I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't”
• First Gravedigger “You lie out on't sir, and therefore it is not yours”
• Hamlet “Thou dost lie in't to be in't, and say 'tis thine. 'Tis for the dead not for the quick, therefore thou liest”

 

This is getting beyond absurd now.

I don't understand how the raising of a cap... Which was due to expire fairly soon, has suddenly become a tax. We've had high inflation for a decent period of time and lots of things have gone up. Are these taxes too? If you're paying more for your shopping, your utilities, your clothes, your electricals, maintenance, mortgage, rent, insurances and anything else you care to mention... Are these suddenly tax related? Of course not.

The right wing populists are having an absolute laugh and its frightening how over a decade of decay is suddenly the fault of a new government and how many people are swallowing it.

Plenty of decisions aren't going to be popular. There will be plenty of things I disagree with. There already are. But the daily fixation of the media and anyone who wants to find fault are doing some amazing volt face manoeuvres. I guess it should reinforce just how powerful and damaging the right wing media and those behind it actually are, that despite falling circulations and revenues, they can still pull the strings of certain groups of people.

 

I work in Leeds city centre 2 days a week. Bus currently £4 return and takes about 45 mins (every 30 mins) Train £5.10 peak return takes 12 mins (every 15 mins in rush hour). I think you can get contract parking for about £10 a day but not available for hybrid working. Cheapest parking to cover an 8hr working day would be £15-£20 plus probably £2-£3 in petrol every day. No brainer to get public transport.