They've went up ...

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36354

...again, bus fares that is. OK I don't use em, but they seem to go up every three months, our lasses sister said it costs £1.20 from Seaton, so how much would it cost for a couple to take three kids to the town and back...... years ago it was the better off who drove cars and the everyone else who used the bus..is it reversed now?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36354

Elvis Costellos Glasses wrote:

I haven't been on a Hartlepool bus since 1983! HOW MUCH to Seaton?? :shock:

I'd want duty frees and business class for that!

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:45 pm

i went on the bus yesterday for the first time in eons
i paid £1.25 from the Grand Hotel to St Helens school

i queried it with the driver and told him i was not wanting to buy the bus
shrugs shoulders was the response

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

Elvis Costellos Glasses wrote:

I haven't been on a Hartlepool bus since 1983! HOW MUCH to Seaton?? :shock:

£1.25 actually :shock:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

look you wingeing twats how else can i afford to get to pools unless i charge you more.

for poolpower if you had shown your pass you would have got it free silly.

no being serious pensioners travel free who do you think makes up the lost revenue the fare paying passengers.

and before anyone says the council/goverment pay for the free travel the amount is based on last years travel since it is free the buses are running about full of people who never travelled by bus before

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36354

no6bus wrote:

look you wingeing twats how else can i afford to get to pools unless i charge you more.

for poolpower if you had shown your pass you would have got it free silly.

no being serious pensioners travel free who do you think makes up the lost revenue the fare paying passengers.

and before anyone says the council/goverment pay for the free travel the amount is based on last years travel since it is free the buses are running about full of people who never travelled by bus before

WHOA THERE...hang about, that's the finanial logic of Mr Micawber...after the first year when the money is paid, everythings even and even if the scheme is scrapped the bus operator will still have a years money even when they've carried no one ...so the Council's paying and the fare payers are paying.....nice work if you can get it. Incidentally, if that were the case, the fares would go up annually and not every couple of months as it now appears.
Er, did Stagecoach post their profits this week and if so, where they up...? :roll:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:58 pm

12p from King Oswy to the Mill House the last time I got the bus :shock:

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

chip fireball wrote:

its about 90 pence from asda to the central. thats 30 pence a stop. thats why i bough a bike.

Its only a 10 minute walk chip,you lazy get.

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

Snowy wrote:

no6bus wrote:

look you wingeing twats how else can i afford to get to pools unless i charge you more.

for poolpower if you had shown your pass you would have got it free silly.

no being serious pensioners travel free who do you think makes up the lost revenue the fare paying passengers.

and before anyone says the council/goverment pay for the free travel the amount is based on last years travel since it is free the buses are running about full of people who never travelled by bus before

WHOA THERE...hang about, that's the finanial logic of Mr Micawber...after the first year when the money is paid, everythings even and even if the scheme is scrapped the bus operator will still have a years money even when they've carried no one ...so the Council's paying and the fare payers are paying.....nice work if you can get it. Incidentally, if that were the case, the fares would go up annually and not every couple of months as it now appears.
Er, did Stagecoach post their profits this week and if so, where they up...? :roll:

not sure will have to check how much my shares are worth :grin:

the fares have gone up sept 2005 may 2006 and last sunday which to be fair is shocking but our wages have not kept pace with the rises :shock:

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:22 pm

no6bus wrote:

look you wingeing twats how else can i afford to get to pools unless i charge you more.

for poolpower if you had shown your pass you would have got it free silly.

no being serious pensioners travel free who do you think makes up the lost revenue the fare paying passengers.

and before anyone says the council/goverment pay for the free travel the amount is based on last years travel since it is free the buses are running about full of people who never travelled by bus before

i as the only one on the bus that paid so that bus is now mine if i see you driving it i will sack you for insolence refred

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

chip fireball wrote:

its about 90 pence from asda to the central. thats 30 pence a stop. thats why i bough a bike.

no its actually only 80p stupid

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

poolpower wrote:

no6bus wrote:

look you wingeing twats how else can i afford to get to pools unless i charge you more.

for poolpower if you had shown your pass you would have got it free silly.

no being serious pensioners travel free who do you think makes up the lost revenue the fare paying passengers.

and before anyone says the council/goverment pay for the free travel the amount is based on last years travel since it is free the buses are running about full of people who never travelled by bus before

i as the only one on the bus that paid so that bus is now mine if i see you driving it i will sack you for insolence refred

yes please save me from the passengers :laugh:

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:24 pm

get a propper job clap clap

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

poolpower wrote:

get a propper job clap clap

no thank you i would miss abusing drivers who drive but cant see a 40 foot bus pulling out of a bus stop rage

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:37 pm

none of us would miss a forty foot bus pulling out in front of us and sitting in the middle of the road doing fifteen miles an hour

i remember following one of your colleagues it might even have been you up the marina way when the driver endeavoured to knock down every bollard the police had placed along side the road spreading them all over the place in his wake and me the original Reginald Molehusband trying to avoid them

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

poolpower wrote:

none of us would miss a forty foot bus pulling out in front of us and sitting in the middle of the road doing fifteen miles an hour

i remember following one of your colleagues it might even have been you up the marina way when the driver endeavoured to knock down every bollard the police had placed along side the road spreading them all over the place in his wake and me the original Reginald Molehusband trying to avoid them

can you tell me when it may have been a camera bus and we can all have a laugh in the canteen :laugh:

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:43 pm

could not say exactly
it was a Sunday morning i think and some event was on at the marina
may have been a bank holiday
it looked like a nuber 6 bus rolfl

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

poolpower wrote:

could not say exactly
it was a Sunday morning i think and some event was on at the marina
may have been a bank holiday
it looked like a nuber 6 bus rolfl

if it was a "nuber 6" it was lost as they dont go along marina way :roll:

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:47 pm

i did say looked
it was red had wheels
looked like a number 6 clap clap

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

I was only kidding chip :-o

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:21 am

poolpower wrote:

get a propper job clap clap

He has got a propper job. Trying to get back some of that pension money that your Labour cronies hand out like men with no hands!! :grin:

poolpower · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:25 pm

i will have you know
i pay my rates

now if you want to argue council
contact thedrum@cityhall.bar/lounge

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

chip fireball wrote:

"no its actually only 80p"

well it was 80p from asda to the central, but if they have gone up 5p that makes it 85 p then, or hasnt it gone up? dunno i only get it if its lashing down or if ive got shitloads of shopping like, otherwise i go on my bike. ive done 10,000 miles on it in 2 years and its just about to be retired.

to be fair to stagecoach they at least run a half decent service. anyone who has had the misfortune to have to use arriva will know what i mean. they are utter shite. i cycle 20 miles a day to work and back to avoid using them.

according to 3 quid this makes me a lazy get stupid

sorry chip i was so busy winding people up i didnt read it properly it is 80 from the town to asda and 95 from asda to mountbatten or 115 to arch court

and as for your half decent service those stood at asda when the road was shut would disagree why didnt we pick them up and then reverse back to middleton road i was asked :roll:

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