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Fucks sake when are people going to stand up to these greedy cunts at First? When are the drivers going to do something about it (they moan enough about copping flak from customers), probably too busy standing around smoking (which is why the buses are always late the lazy shitbags). When is the government going to fucking sort this bunch of wankers out. I'm fucked off with this. Yet again we get gouged and yet again there'll be some bullshit excuse about the cost of insurance or oil or whatever bollocks their toadies will come out with.

I'm going to ring these cunts in the morning and swear as loudly as I can at them. :mad::mad::mad:
 
I saw some notices on the bus lastw eek but didn't pay much attention. I did notice that the price of a FirstWeek has actually gone down.

What tickets are affected by the rise?
 
all of them as far as I can tell. Some are staying the same until October. I don't use the city buses so I don't know.
 
Hmm, we'll see in the morning when I get the bus into town. It's normally £2.70 return.
 
We have posh new buses on our route now. They said they were going to write to all the households on the route and offer free Firstday tickets, but I haven't had any letter. I think I am on their blacklist for complaining about them to my MP and the Transport Commissioner.
 
I pretty uch walk everywhere anyway but the buses from South Bristol are terrible, I think I got one when I went home ill from work and it went all over the shop and cost me a fortune.
 
I hardly use them either, mostly at weekends or if I am going out straight from work. I went to my friend's house in Knowle and it was £2.20 - it's closer to town than my house, but 40p more!
 
It's seriously ridiculous, they're really unreliable aswell, the amount of times the last bus wouldn't turn up when I used to have to catch it after ashift at the hippo was disgusting. The last bus!
 
A single cash fare on any London bus is £2, even if you're only going one stop or from one end of the route to the other.

Bristol buses probably aren't that bad comparatively.
 
ajdown said:
A single cash fare on any London bus is £2, even if you're only going one stop or from one end of the route to the other.

Bristol buses probably aren't that bad comparatively.
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They are officially the worst in the country.
 
electrogirl said:
The majority of Bristol bus driversare utter tossers aswell. God I fucking hate Bristol buses. :D
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One of them shouted at me because he drove past the stop and I told him I wanted to get off. He said "You should have rang the bell then!" I said "I did ring the bell" and he started arguing with me, so I just got off and said "OK, whatever" :rolleyes:

I had rang the bell, but although the light came on to say bus stopping, it didn't actually make a noise for some reason. How am I supposed to know if they can see the light or not - I assume if someone rings the bell it gives them some kind of signal, they don't just rely in hearing the ting.

Why did he think I got out of my seat and went and stood by the door - for fun?
 
ajdown said:
A single cash fare on any London bus is £2, even if you're only going one stop or from one end of the route to the other.
Bristol buses probably aren't that bad comparatively.
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London doesn't seem too bad in comparison.

I’ve never paid paid the £2 cash fare on a London bus, with an Oystercard it’s a £1 - 0r £3.30 unlimited use for a day.

Does Bristol offer a half fare scheme for the unemployed?
 
Geri said:
One of them shouted at me because he drove past the stop and I told him I wanted to get off. He said "You should have rang the bell then!" I said "I did ring the bell" and he started arguing with me, so I just got off and said "OK, whatever" :rolleyes:

I had rang the bell, but although the light came on to say bus stopping, it didn't actually make a noise for some reason. How am I supposed to know if they can see the light or not - I assume if someone rings the bell it gives them some kind of signal, they don't just rely in hearing the ting.

Why did he think I got out of my seat and went and stood by the door - for fun?
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God! Maybe he thought you wanted to be near his vibrant and joyful aura?!:D

I swear they must either employ the most angry and resentful people in the whole of Bristol, or they treat them so badly that any sparkle they once had gets smashed out of them.

I mean, they just seem to LOVE being angry. You can't even ask them a question about the bustimes or services or whatever without them acting like you've asked them if you can shit on their face or something.

Lots of them can't even bring themselves to vocalise the price of the fare so you have to say 'sorry how much is it?' while they roll their eyes and mumble something under their breath that you can't hear anyway.

I must say, they're not ALL bad but this has been my general experience. The fact that I can remember the nice ones vividly whereas the bad ones just fall into a big mesh of horrible grumpiness says alot I think.
 
I think they start off as normal human beings, but gradually turn into grumpy twats.

Although in their defence, I would turn into a grumpy twat if I had to deal with all the idiots they have to deal with every day. I have no patience at all for idiotic members of the public.

I always try to have the right change, I said hi when I get on and thanks when I get off, even when their erratic driving has flung me down the stairs and caused me to end up with bruises.
 
Geri said:
I hardly use them either, mostly at weekends or if I am going out straight from work. I went to my friend's house in Knowle and it was £2.20 - it's closer to town than my house, but 40p more!
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Discovered a single trip from Leeds on peak was £2.50! That is taking the piss. There aren't any concessions for benefits or unemployed as far as I know here, either.
 
One thing i think could really improve things with the buses and their usage generally is a decent website for the service. Currently finding fare or journey information is an absolute nightmare, one of the least usable web systems i've seen for years. You could do something good using googlemaps to plot where the buses actually go, perhaps even pick a start point, an end point and the time you need to be at your destination, and it tells you when and where you need to get the bus from, as well as how much it will cost. You could also add to it a big clear form for complaining to first, which emails your comments to them, cc'ing your local councillor based on your postcode.

Meh, just thinking out loud, but those are some of the easiest things to fix about the service for me. Making it easier to register your complaint, and allowing councillors to see the strength of feeling over this might also have an impact on the fares and quality of service issues too.
 
Buses are one thing which tend to be much pricier outside London. If you've got an Oyster card (which is an incredibly easy thing to acquire, and there's no lower or upper limit on how much credit it can have, so there's no reason to pay cash fares at all - I just view the Oyster fares as the fares in London, the cash fares are a penalty fare) then even with Boris's new increase it's still only 1.05 to go anywhere in London on the bus, which is incredible. It costs 1.80 to go from here in High Heaton to Newcastle centre by bus, which is scandalous considering the wages in the two cities.
 
ajdown said:
A single cash fare on any London bus is £2, even if you're only going one stop or from one end of the route to the other.

Bristol buses probably aren't that bad comparatively.
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London is spoiled for buses. Only a quid on oyster (which everyone has, hardly anyone pays the cash fare). Night buses almost everywhere for no extra.

Bristol buses are SHITE. First have a monopoly and there's no TfL-like body that can set routes and fares, so if it's not profitable, they won't run a bus.
 
They bounce about a lot, they sacrifice comfort for standing room, the 3 doors confuse foreign tourists who try and get on the back door of "regular" buses then wonder why the driver shouts at them, and although they've supposedly been fixed now, they did have a regular habit of catching fire when first introduced.
 
Sunspots said:
Ah yes, I've heard mention on Urban of this quite a few times. :eek::(
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... and it seems when they do go up, they don't make a half assed job of it.

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