If YOU have a Bus Pass

chesky

I'm so glad I live in London - no inspector would dare try this on, they'd be lynched. Anyway, there aren't enough inspectors to go round.

Hedgehog99

SimonSays wrote: »

I agree that FARE PAYING passengers should have priority, Anyone on a free pass (Except people in a wheelchair) should be made to wait until the actual people who pay for the bus service are catered for.

The bus company still gets paid very nicely thank you for taking bus pass holders, so the queue should be first come, first served except for those with mobility issues being allowed on first to choose suitable seats/the wheelchair place.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Reminds me of the time last year when we were on the bus from Goodrington Sands to Paignton.

We asked the driver in a joking manner if he could pull the bus up a couple of yards so we could see the sea. He replied that sea views were for paying passengers only, not bus pass holders. We hoped he was also joking!!!

KxMx

Hedgehog99 wrote: »

The bus company still gets paid very nicely thank you for taking bus pass holders, so the queue should be first come, first served except for those with mobility issues being allowed on first to choose suitable seats/the wheelchair place.

It should certainly be first come first served.

But I disagree bus operators get paid very nicely for pass holders.

A local company gets 93p for each journey, down from £1.20 in 2008. The average fare is £1.80.

22% of passengers are full paying, 38% are pass holders and 40% are children/young people.

They've begun reducing or withdrawing routes used by majority pass holders and from a business point you can see why. One route is going where 77% are pass holders, when the average across the network is 33%.

poppasmurf_bewdley

KxMx wrote: »

It should certainly be first come first served.

But I disagree bus operators get paid very nicely for pass holders.

A local company gets 93p for each journey, down from £1.20 in 2008. The average fare is £1.80.

22% of passengers are full paying, 38% are pass holders and 40% are children/young people.

They've begun reducing or withdrawing routes used by majority pass holders and from a business point you can see why. One route is going where 77% are pass holders, when the average across the network is 33%.

I'm a member of a caravan club and almost all our members are aged 60 plus. We often use our bus passes for joint outings when we are on site.

We were talking about the costs of providing these passes recently, and about the possibility of the government removing them in the future. It was a unanimous agreement that we would all be prepared to pay £1 every time we used the passes if it meant we could keep them.

seven-day-weekend

I too would be prepared to pay but don't want to have to do it every time I board the bus. That's one of the joys of having a bus pass, not having to try to find change

Something like a tenner a month through Direct Debit would be OK.

roy62

Bus passes should be for local use only.

seven-day-weekend

roy62 wrote: »

Bus passes should be for local use only.

They ar for local use only, if you mean you can only use local buses, not long-distance ones. However I can use mine on a local bus anywhere in England, on the tram service that connects my city to Birmingham, and train services within the West Midlands.

tanith

I'd also be willing to pay a £1 to keep my pass but unfortunately London buses are now cashless so not sure how that could work..
thanks for the heads up anyway

27col

I have thought for years that the financial costs of bus pass would be much relieved if bus pass users were to pay, say £25 pa. Though I imagine that Town Hall bureaucracy would rapidly find a way to soak up the payments into something else, if not carefully monitored