Pricing

[citaro5284]

Nice one. Particularly as bigun is 14 in a couple of months (and I've had certain drivers giving me the evil eye for buying him child tickets for a good year, now.)

Mind, once we make that move into Durham, he'll be able to make more use of gne's £1 fares, since the house we're buying is right on several gne routes.

Hope the move is on soon, even just to save the cash with Bigun's fares!

[Ambassador]

GNEs ludicrous stage and fare zones continue to baffle me...

Durham to Birtley £4.40
Durham to Newcastle £4.40

That's a 14 mile difference in distance

[Tamesider]

GNEs ludicrous stage and fare zones continue to baffle me...

Durham to Birtley £4.40
Durham to Newcastle £4.40

That's a 14 mile difference in distance

Does the shorter journey serve mainly low car ownership areas?

[Adrian]

GNEs ludicrous stage and fare zones continue to baffle me...

Durham to Birtley £4.40
Durham to Newcastle £4.40

That's a 14 mile difference in distance

North Lodge to Durham is also £4.40. The fare stage changes at Chester-le-Street Front Street to £3.50, between that point and Durham.

You should count yourself lucky. You could have the wacky and wonderful Washington network to put up with, where it costs twice as much to travel beyond the Galleries from Brady Square, on a Sunday...

[Ambassador]

Does the shorter journey serve mainly low car ownership areas?

No. Low Fell and Birtley have high levels of car ownership, the only thing they have in common is virtual monopolies by GNE aside a half hourly limited stop express service from Arriva.

[Malarkey]

I used EYMS Service 6 on Thursday from Scarborough North Bay to Rail Station due to heavy rain, an approximate journey of 8 Minutes and it cost 50p for an Adult Single much to my surprise given I had put down £2, in terms of distance I would of said it was like going from Lambton to The Galleries, that's £1.10 difference between two different operators from different areas.

[Tamesider]

No. Low Fell and Birtley have high levels of car ownership, the only thing they have in common is virtual monopolies by GNE aside a half hourly limited stop express service from Arriva.

Here in GM, the highest fares are in low car ownership areas, and/or where there is no competition, which is a double failure of de-reg in terms of captive market economics. Why isn't there more competition in low car ownership (thus high bus use) areas? I suppose there was in the early days of de-reg, with the so-called "David v Goliath" battles - Piranha v Blue Whale would have been more appropriate. Trouble is, this brought low quality but without low cost. Now we have "Two Tribes" (as in FGTH) battles that leaves the rest of their respective territory to rot.

[Malarkey]

Transdev and Stagecoach Megabus join forces to offer coach equivalent of Plusbus - http://www.route-one.net/articles/Passen..._in_tie_up

Add-on single fares for local bus travel to join Megabus.com coaches at Leeds will be £3 from Ripon, Harrogate or Keighley, or £5 from York, Malton and Yorkshire Coast.

[GuyParkRoyal]

Stagecoach Sunderland Eveningrider looks a good deal priced at £2.

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and...eningrider

[idiot]

Impressed with the option

[Andreos1]

Stagecoach Sunderland Eveningrider looks a good deal priced at £2.

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and...eningrider

Is it £2 per trip or £2 all evening?
Not too clear.

[tyresmoke]

The name would suggest all evening

[Andreos1]

The name would suggest all evening

That's the thing. It suggests it, but there's nothing to say it definitely is.

[tcts24]

That's the thing. It suggests it, but there's nothing to say it definitely is.

Given that it's listed under "day tickets" which state "Our day tickets allow you to make as many journeys as you like for one day on Stagecoach buses.

They offer more value for money than buying a single or return, as you can travel on all our buses within your chosen ticket zone." 
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/regionalti...daytickets
To be fair, none of the other tickets seem to actually specify that they're valid on multiple journeys. Presumably Stagecoach assume that people who use their services, are familiar enough with the suffix "rider", to know that it's a generic Stagecoach term for a multi journey ticket.

[GuyParkRoyal]

Is it £2 per trip or £2 all evening?
Not too clear.

I have checked this with the Communications Team and they confirm that the Sunderland evening rider covers all the trips you may wish to make in the defined area from 19:00. 

So even for someone making a £2.20 single journey it would be cheaper to buy the evening rider at £2.00.

[Andreos1]

Given that it's listed under "day tickets" which state "Our day tickets allow you to make as many journeys as you like for one day on Stagecoach buses.

They offer more value for money than buying a single or return, as you can travel on all our buses within your chosen ticket zone." 
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/regionalti...daytickets
To be fair, none of the other tickets seem to actually specify that they're valid on multiple journeys. Presumably Stagecoach assume that people who use their services, are familiar enough with the suffix "rider", to know that it's a generic Stagecoach term for a multi journey ticket.

To be fair, when clicking on the original link, the url doesn't appear to have anything other than a Press Release included.
It is only when you dig a little further like you and GPR have, that it becomes totally clear.

I have checked this with the Communications Team and they confirm that the Sunderland evening rider covers all the trips you may wish to make in the defined area from 19:00. 

So even for someone making a £2.20 single journey it would be cheaper to buy the evening rider at £2.00.

Cheers. 
Hopefully they make it a little more obvious to ordinary passengers.
It is excellent value and it would be a shame for people to be not totally aware of its value.

[Andreos1]

Two bus trips over the weekend, a combined duration of approx 45 minutes (30mins + 15mins) and a wallet that's £7.90 lighter.

Not sure what word/s I should use to describe my feelings...
*looks for a meme of Dick Turpin*

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Two bus trips over the weekend, a combined duration of approx 45 minutes (30mins + 15mins) and a wallet that's £7.90 lighter.

Not sure what word/s I should use to describe my feelings...
*looks for a meme of Dick Turpin*

This will do

[Andreos1]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15...l/?ref=rss

Pricing deal for ANE passengers in Darlington, ahead of Christmas rush.

[BusLoverMum]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15...l/?ref=rss

Pricing deal for ANE passengers in Darlington, ahead of Christmas rush.

How do the opposition peeps propose to make it cheaper/better for OAPs when they already travel for free?

[Andreos1]

How do the opposition peeps propose to make it cheaper/better for OAPs when they already travel for free?

I did wonder that myself.
Must admit to being keen on the budget utilised for these cheaper tickets and wondering how it will benefit the taxpayer more than it does the operator (I know... like a broken record...)