| Comment | This is a good step, and one we've all been waiting for for years. Pretty soon this'll be synced up with the other bus operators. Then the subway and potentially local trains.
All good.
Nonetheless, as the new pricing shows, this isn't enough. A £5 day ticket for one operator alone is a scandal. As is a return fare (two-trip ticket) which costs £4.50. I can fully imagine when the multi operator system is in place we could see a day ticket costing something like £6 or £7. Bundling in subway travel? I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up at something like £7.50 or so.
Obviously this is far from certain, but I'm very sceptical about where this is headed, cost wise.
With this said, it might be that once the mechanisms for full multimodal ticketing is in place, that is the time that the city can exert its influence to cap prices. There's a lot of new powers in reserve that GCC haven't yet touched when it comes to bus / transport planning. Hopefully more can be done, even after all this integration is rolled out. |
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