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Title: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: STFC_Gazza on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:25:16
Those who use Thamesdown buses quite a lot will be a bit pissed off. Starting the 16th of February Thamesdown are increasing their prices

ADULT DAY RIDER Currently £3.00 (or £2.90 on stagecoach) going up to £3.20
MONTHLY PASS Currently £42.00 going up to £47.00

All prices below.

http://www.thamesdown-transport.co.uk/revised_summery.pdf

Absolute bloody rip off. Thamesdown are already sacking workers to save dosh, have a "no change" policy so they collect £25K extra a year I think the adver said and they still have the audacity to put the prices up.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Summerof69 on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:29:27
And they can't even run buses in the bloody snow.

Oh by the way, the Day Rider is going up to £3.20 and not £4.20.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:29:57
Nationalise them.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: STFC_Gazza on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:30:32
And they can't even run buses in the bloody snow.

Oh by the way, the Day Rider is going up to £3.20 and not £4.20.

Sorry...  Just thinking as sad as it is for people to lose their job and the 25K a year more they get PLUS the reduction in fuel costs SHOULD be passed onto the customer.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:31:22
So you lied about the price rise? Invalidated your point now gaz. I think you should be stretched by busses.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: STFC_Gazza on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:42:14
So you lied about the price rise? Invalidated your point now gaz. I think you should be stretched by busses.

Not really as the point was, they make 25k a year extra which aren't even fares, a reduction in fuel costs and the punter gets shafted. Stagecoach day rider is £2.90 and is frozen at that price whilst Thamesdown put it up to £3.20, How does that work? Ok Thamesdown have all these silly bus signs sayingwhen a bus is arriving incase you can't read a timetable and add 10 minutes for it being late, as well as buses that talk to you now. Seems silly.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:43:43
You shouldn't have lied though gaz. Or just admitted you made a mistake.

I'm not so much as pissed off it's going up 20p than relieved it's not going up £1.20. Good on Thamesdown I say.



Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Bogus Dave on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:44:03
I might be wrong, but stagecoach are a nationwide company, whereas thamesdown only serve swindon? Stagecoach can probably afford to have lower prices


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: nevillew on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:45:10
Not really as the point was, they make 25k a year extra which aren't even fares, a reduction in fuel costs and the punter gets shafted. Stagecoach day rider is £2.90 and is frozen at that price whilst Thamesdown put it up to £3.20, How does that work? Ok Thamesdown have all these silly bus signs sayingwhen a bus is arriving incase you can't read a timetable and add 10 minutes for it being late, as well as buses that talk to you now. Seems silly.

Did the prices go up in line with the 30% diesel increase last year Gazza ?


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Nemo on Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:47:53
In bus related news, you know how they always pull up at Fleming way, get everybody on and then the driver buggers off for a fag/change of drivers? (Smoking seems to be a condition of employment with Thamesdown)

Got an 18 yesterday, exactly that hapenned except we didn't get a replacement driver. Sat on this bus for about 20 minutes with the door shut and no driver, all having paid for the priviledge. Being British, nobody on the bus said a thing until a 19 pulled up behind us, loaded up and left again.

Eventually we got a whole new bus instead of a new driver thanks to some random chap who was cleaning up the buses. I know this has nothing to do with prices but ho hum.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: STFC_Gazza on Friday, February 6, 2009, 13:32:53
Did the prices go up in line with the 30% diesel increase last year Gazza ?

yes they did!


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Fred Elliot on Friday, February 6, 2009, 13:45:28
what they went up by 30% ?


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: stfc11 on Friday, February 6, 2009, 14:18:07
In bus related news, you know how they always pull up at Fleming way, get everybody on and then the driver buggers off for a fag/change of drivers? (Smoking seems to be a condition of employment with Thamesdown)

Got an 18 yesterday, exactly that hapenned except we didn't get a replacement driver. Sat on this bus for about 20 minutes with the door shut and no driver, all having paid for the priviledge. Being British, nobody on the bus said a thing until a 19 pulled up behind us, loaded up and left again.

Eventually we got a whole new bus instead of a new driver thanks to some random chap who was cleaning up the buses. I know this has nothing to do with prices but ho hum.

That happened to me once! But someone just got up and pushed the button above the door and went and told another driver who went and got the driver who had 'forgotten he was meant to be driving the bus'!


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Mexicano Rojo on Friday, February 6, 2009, 14:22:43
prices in Brighton and Hove

single journey even if 1 stop £1.80

day saver  £4.20

stop you fucking moaning


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Ironside on Friday, February 6, 2009, 17:04:05
And I was pissed off when Oyster went back up to a £1 a pop again this year. 90p last year.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: larwood on Friday, February 6, 2009, 17:14:35
prices in Brighton and Hove

single journey even if 1 stop £1.80

day saver  £4.20

stop you fucking moaning
Yeah,but Brighton is a hip and happening tourist hot spot,it should cost more,if only to fleece all the foreigners and students  ;) Swindon is well Swindon.Besides which the no change policy is a absolute disgrace  >:(


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Simon Pieman on Friday, February 6, 2009, 17:57:07
How long did the fuel prices stay that high for?


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: jonny72 on Friday, February 6, 2009, 18:18:28
Nightmare - they're re-routing the number 19 so it won't take me up to Old Town at the weekend anymore. That will be a major pain in the arse, having to walk up that bloody hill, or to add an hour to the journey by changing buses.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Nemo on Friday, February 6, 2009, 18:18:34
the no change policy is a absolute disgrace  >:(

If everyone else in Swindon is like me, Greggs must love it, I always seem to need to break a note to avoid giving the buggers a fiver and I must have bought about twenty quids worth of mildly dissapointing savoury snacks for that purpose alone.


Title: Re: Bus Fare Price Increase AGAIN
Post by: Spencer_White on Friday, February 6, 2009, 19:57:50
Fuck off, Brighton are loaded.

Tax the fuck out of them and put it into Swindon.