Bus tickets - single?
 

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:03:19 +0000
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 09/12/2015 09:22, d wrote:
I know people who use usenet are generally more technical than others and
wouldn't have a problem with most machines, but FFS at least try and put
yourselves in others situations occasionally.


And conversely why should we subsidise foreign visitors to these lands
when they do not do likewise? Particularly when there are plenty of

Sorry? How is providing a person to speak to subsidising anything? And I
wasn't just talking about foreign visitors. When I first used the T&W metro
with is staffless stations and hopeless ticket machines I was standing there
for 2 or 3 minutes trying to figure out what the hell to buy. If they'd had
someone in a window it could have been sorted in seconds.

Listen , if you lot all have Aspergers and prefer dealing with machines than
people then you have my pity. But most of us in the human race are not that
way inclined so stop assuming everyone is as screwed up as you are.

guidebooks available, in their language, that hopefully contain a useful
zonal map of the tube alongside details of what tickets are available.

Oh sure, and a screen by screen guide of how to use the machines too no
doubt.

Although I'd have thought the best advice these days would be to just
use a contactless card and it will get you close to the cheapest
possible fare if not exactly so.

Because the complete lack of signage on the gates makes it so obvious that
contactless can be used doesn't it.

At least the system is nowhere near as perverse as the Sofian tram
system, with the additional complication of notices in cyrillic and a
different fine structure for foreigners (higher by a factor of 10 or
used to be!)

And a single journey probably cost the equivalent of 10p.

--
Spud

Bus tickets - single?
 

On 2015-12-09 14:36:43 +0000, d said:

Sorry? How is providing a person to speak to subsidising anything? And I
wasn't just talking about foreign visitors. When I first used the T&W metro
with is staffless stations and hopeless ticket machines I was standing there
for 2 or 3 minutes trying to figure out what the hell to buy. If they'd had
someone in a window it could have been sorted in seconds.

Well this is a first - I actually agree with you. I travel a lot in
Europe and many is the time I've been peering at a ticket machine
trying to figure out how to buy a single fare. Even the locals
sometimes don't know and sometimes it's not even the right machine...

If there are no barriers I usually just ride for free.

Mostly though it's down to very poor interface design.

E.

Bus tickets - single?
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 19:27:10 on Tue, 8 Dec
2015, Mizter T remarked:

And presumably these courier services would install pillar boxes
with once or twice daily collections in almost every urban street
the country

They are much more sparse than that. On average perhaps one every ten
minutes walk. The one nearest me has only a single collection each day,
at about 8.30am!

Five mins walk, perhaps, in an urban setting. From my front door,
I've got four that I can think of well within 5 mins walk.

YMMV in an urban setting outside the M25.

This urban setting outside the M25 still has evening box collections with
more than 4 within 5 minutes walk of our house.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Bus tickets - single?
 

In message , at 14:36:43 on Wed, 9 Dec
2015, d remarked:
Although I'd have thought the best advice these days would be to just
use a contactless card and it will get you close to the cheapest
possible fare if not exactly so.

Because the complete lack of signage on the gates makes it so obvious that
contactless can be used doesn't it.

There's lots of big signs up (albeit only in English) at the larger
stations.
--
Roland Perry

Bus tickets - single?
 

In message , at 09:06:06
on Wed, 9 Dec 2015, remarked:
And presumably these courier services would install pillar boxes
with once or twice daily collections in almost every urban street
the country

They are much more sparse than that. On average perhaps one every ten
minutes walk. The one nearest me has only a single collection each day,
at about 8.30am!

Five mins walk, perhaps, in an urban setting. From my front door,
I've got four that I can think of well within 5 mins walk.

YMMV in an urban setting outside the M25.

This urban setting outside the M25 still has evening box collections with
more than 4 within 5 minutes walk of our house.

But you live in the City Centre. Try the exercise again halfway up
Milton Road,
--
Roland Perry

Bus tickets - single?
 

A great thing about the internet is that someone asks a question like,

"Is it no longer possible to buy a single bus ticket?"

and he gets nearly one HUNDRED replies!

Superb!

Bus tickets - single?
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
09:06:06 on Wed, 9 Dec 2015, remarked:
And presumably these courier services would install pillar boxes
with once or twice daily collections in almost every urban street
the country

They are much more sparse than that. On average perhaps one every
ten minutes walk. The one nearest me has only a single collection
each day, at about 8.30am!

Five mins walk, perhaps, in an urban setting. From my front door,
I've got four that I can think of well within 5 mins walk.

YMMV in an urban setting outside the M25.

This urban setting outside the M25 still has evening box collections with
more than 4 within 5 minutes walk of our house.

But you live in the City Centre. Try the exercise again halfway up
Milton Road,

You implied it was everywhere outside the M25. I've told you a million times
not to exaggerate!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Bus tickets - single?
 

In message , at 11:51:29
on Wed, 9 Dec 2015, remarked:
Five mins walk, perhaps, in an urban setting. From my front door,
I've got four that I can think of well within 5 mins walk.

YMMV in an urban setting outside the M25.

This urban setting outside the M25 still has evening box collections with
more than 4 within 5 minutes walk of our house.

But you live in the City Centre. Try the exercise again halfway up
Milton Road,

You implied it was everywhere outside the M25. I've told you a million times
not to exaggerate!

The second M stands for *may* ;)
--
Roland Perry

Bus tickets - single?
 

On 2015-12-09 17:09:49 +0000, Offramp said:

A great thing about the internet is that someone asks a question like,

"Is it no longer possible to buy a single bus ticket?"

and he gets nearly one HUNDRED replies!

Superb!

That was me - and only 95% off-topic.

E.

Bus tickets - single?
 

wrote in message
...
In article , (Roland
Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 19:27:10 on Tue, 8 Dec
2015, Mizter T remarked:

And presumably these courier services would install pillar boxes
with once or twice daily collections in almost every urban street
the country

They are much more sparse than that. On average perhaps one every ten
minutes walk. The one nearest me has only a single collection each
day,
at about 8.30am!

Five mins walk, perhaps, in an urban setting. From my front door,
I've got four that I can think of well within 5 mins walk.

YMMV in an urban setting outside the M25.

This urban setting outside the M25 still has evening box collections with
more than 4 within 5 minutes walk of our house.

presumably that's because you have 4 post offices within 5 minutes walk

not many people are this lucky

tim



--
Colin Rosenstiel