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Title: Why is it just the railways? Post by: old original on January 11, 2012, 16:51:19 Jumped on the bus this morning to find the fares had gone up from ^2.50 to ^2.70 about 8%, but hang on, at Easter last year it was ^2.30, so that's about 17% in nine months. So should I mount a national campaign, have a fares strike, errr no I'll save my vitriol for the railways' 6%
:-\ Title: Re: Why is it just the railways? Post by: EBrown on January 11, 2012, 16:57:56 Wow. this seems a little frivolous. Is there a question in there or are you just unhappy with your local bus service?
Bus services are local. By all means have a local bus fare strike. My local bus service hasn't risen in price! Rail fares (while not effecting all services) (maximum) rise are set Nationally. Title: Re: Why is it just the railways? Post by: JayMac on January 11, 2012, 17:02:12 Some of my local bus journeys went down in price late last year....
^1.20/^1.70/^2.20 (depending on journey length) all down to a flat fare ^1. Most welcome, although the service went from 4bph to 2bph. Title: Re: Why is it just the railways? Post by: old original on January 11, 2012, 17:22:38 No, the service is ok it's just that I feel that sometimes the railways are unfairly targeted.
Title: Re: Why is it just the railways? Post by: vacman on January 14, 2012, 12:29:46 The railways are an easy target, but to be honest, people take no real notice of railway news now, it's a bit of a boy who cried wolf scenario!
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