Neil Williams wrote:
Stephen Farrow wrote:

Of course, the *real* challenge to a tourist would be figuring out bus
fares etc somewhere like Manchester, where there's a deregulated bus
service, multiple operators (sometimes on the same route), and no
standard overall fare structure.

True, though at least the ticket can be purchased from the driver, and
change will usually be given.

Yes; that gets more complicated when you try and buy a day pass. I quite
regularly, when I'm back home (Oldham, where I grew up), buy bus and
train daysavers; asking for one of these seems to confuse some bus
drivers, who don't always appear to know how to get the full range of
tickets they're meant to be able to sell out of the machine (and I'm not
talking about the smaller operators, either - I'm talking about First).
Since single, distance-based bus tickets in the area are now ludicrously
expensive, you'd think drivers would be properly trained in the range of
day tickets available (even bus-only tickets seem to cause confusion
with some drivers if you *don't* want the one that's only valid on First
services).

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Stephen

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