In barnsley is ****ing stupid. Got my travel pass for 90 notes for 28 days bus train and tram. I've worked out that the bus part of my trips 15 quid a week. No wonder folk drive.
But de-regulation and free competition was supposed to make buses better and cheaper. In practice the old local authority monopolies have been replaced by private ones who provide a worse service for more money. I live on a main road in a fairly large village and not one bus stops here anymore. Bring back SYT.
I work in Rotherham and live in Dodworth so also buy that £90 pass and it saves me a lot of money - otherwse it'd be £1.80 Dodworth-Barnsley on bus then £5.70 return on train Barnsley-Rotherham. and then another £1.80 to get from Barnsley-Dodworth - so looking at nearly £10 a day/£200 a month! That £90 pass also means I can use it when not commuting as well so saves even more money.
A couple of years ago I worked out that I could fly from Doncaster to Dublin and back for less than I could catch a bus to Barnsley town centre.
Ah but the same 'private company' when I lived darn sarf I could do my house to chesterfield or sheffield and back for a fiver. Return journeys of twenty miles.
how could that possibly make bus fares cheaper in this area? Bus fare were subsidised in your rates, meaning even those that never used the bus paid. The question should be , why didn't the rates come down when the subsidy was abolished.
Did the rates maybe stay the same rather than being increased like they would have been if the subsidy had continued?
I reckon it's a bit of a myth that running a car is more expensive than using public transport, especially when you factor in the time it saves. Takes me about 15 minutes to get to work in the car, it would take about 45 minutes on the bus with a half mile walk at the start and end of the bus journey. What's a bus pass about £12 a week? Yes I spend more than that in petrol and I have to tax, maintain and insure the thing but if I just take into account travelling to work and back that is about £20 a week at the most. Luckily nothing has ever gone majorly wrong with any of the cars I've own, think I've had an exhaust repaired and bought a few tyres that's about it. Obviously if the clutch or something decides it wants to consume itself then that's a different matter. I've gone through the few years of standing p*ss wet through at a bus stop freezing my t*ts off as the bus drives past because it's already full and I ain't going back to those days - they should put that on the drink drive adverts.
My point is how expensive public transport is compared to driving. It's as cheap for me and the missus to get a taxi than it is for the bus back from town.
2p for kids and 8p for adults when I was young - I pay 2.10 in Liverpool and 1.40 for my kids. That's some rise
Courthouse car park nigh on £70 a month parking. Makes public transport far more affordable when taken into consideration that its a car park in ******* barnsley centre not wall street.
Question for DT - is it possible to get one of those types of bus/train passes if like me tha lives in West Yorks but journey takes thi to South Yorks? If so, I could save some reight coin. If not, I am being robbed and sumat needs changing.
