On Feb 7, 3:40*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

To some extent you can solve that by a pricing structure where (for
example) an unlimited day ticket is the same price as two individual
legs. So the only people who would ever pay for a single leg are those
who are sure that's all they need to do that day (think of it as a "low
daily use discount").

Local bus companies seem to take that approach in many parts of the UK
- the MK one has been slightly less than the price of two average-
distance[1] singles for some time. But most smaller towns' bus
systems are rather less likely to need a change of bus for the kind of
journey that usually requires a single only - a journey to the town
centre bus station for the railway station, for a trip away for more
than one day. London's system is rather more complicated, so this
doesn't apply.

[1] There are 4 single-fare levels in MK - town centre only, short-
journey, "normal" and cross-town-centre. Most journeys take the
"normal" one. Very few take the latter, to the point that I don't see
why they don't do away with it.

Neil