Arriva buses
Arriva buses
Anyone else think that they are costing too much to use and are crap.
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their defiantly too much... £1.30 from town to skerney is a fookin rip off!
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A year or so back I drove my mums car into town to get serviced. Got the bus back to Barton and it cost me £2.50 one way! Couldn't believe it! Costs £3 for an entire day down here and the busses come a lot more frequently! Thought London was meant to be expensive!
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a walk alot of the time to town and back. its only 20 minutes walk. also walk home from work which is about 4 miles which does help in losing pounds
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£5.75 return from catterick into darlo for a adult!! absolute RIP OFF
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Stagecoach ftw
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What really annoys me is old people with free bus passes. Now before anyone gets angry, here's my reason.
My gran has used the same bus to go to Darlington every week for as long as I can remember. It used to be that because her pass was for Wear Valley, it wasn't valid on the bus to Darlo. So she paid a couple of quid for concessionary fare. As did the majority of people that used the bus (as most bus users are OAPS, kids and students). The service was an hourly service right up untill 11pm and had been for years.
Within a month of "countywide" bus passes coming in, suddenly the majority of people using the bus were getting there for nothing (I know the council pays something towards it, but it is nowhere near the concessionary rate). So Arriva hiked the fare up for everyone else, so cover their costs. Anyone who could, then found alternative ways to travel, so it became pretty much just the OAPS using the bus.
As they weren't making money, Arriva reduced the service to 6 return journeys a day, and have sinced axed it. Now the OAPs have bus passes they cant use on that bus, and everyone else is paying a fortune for bus travel! Thats progress for you!
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My gran has used the same bus to go to Darlington every week for as long as I can remember. It used to be that because her pass was for Wear Valley, it wasn't valid on the bus to Darlo. So she paid a couple of quid for concessionary fare. As did the majority of people that used the bus (as most bus users are OAPS, kids and students). The service was an hourly service right up untill 11pm and had been for years.
Within a month of "countywide" bus passes coming in, suddenly the majority of people using the bus were getting there for nothing (I know the council pays something towards it, but it is nowhere near the concessionary rate). So Arriva hiked the fare up for everyone else, so cover their costs. Anyone who could, then found alternative ways to travel, so it became pretty much just the OAPS using the bus.
As they weren't making money, Arriva reduced the service to 6 return journeys a day, and have sinced axed it. Now the OAPs have bus passes they cant use on that bus, and everyone else is paying a fortune for bus travel! Thats progress for you!
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Another way they make money out of you, only having buses that go in one direction from town Used to be able to get one bus to my Grandparents house, now it takes two so now i just walk there or for an extra 70p get a taxi.
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cameron-darlo wrote:their defiantly too much... £1.30 from town to skerney is a fookin rip off!
Think yourself lucky.
FirstMainline [South Yorks] charge £1.80 for a 2 mile, 15-20 minute journey.
And it's about to be increased.
I wouldn't care so much if the money they make stayed here, rather than get siponed into the pockets of the parasites who are the shareholders.
Bloody Thatcher!
Bring Back the Quarters
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It's only a 10 min walk from Skerne Park to the town centre. Either walk down Clifton Road, or walk through the park. Doesn't take long. I rarely used public transport in Darlington, usually walked everywherecameron-darlo wrote:their defiantly too much... £1.30 from town to skerney is a fookin rip off!
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It was always going to be the case when Arriva took over Stagecoachs routes in the town, now arriva are the only buses running in the town they can charge pretty much what they like, £1.30 to go to town is a rip off, i tend to walk, usually by the time the bus would of turned up to the bus stop then got us into town i'd of walked it
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its 20minutes and dont tell me what to do... i normally do walk everywhere but with this shitty weather id rather pay the £1.30.AndyPark wrote:It's only a 10 min walk from Skerne Park to the town centre. Either walk down Clifton Road, or walk through the park. Doesn't take long. I rarely used public transport in Darlington, usually walked everywherecameron-darlo wrote:their defiantly too much... £1.30 from town to skerney is a fookin rip off!
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Where exactly do i say you have to walk, i am just saying. It doesn't take 20 mins to walk from Skerne Parkcameron-darlo wrote:its 20minutes and dont tell me what to do... i normally do walk everywhere but with this shitty weather id rather pay the £1.30.AndyPark wrote:It's only a 10 min walk from Skerne Park to the town centre. Either walk down Clifton Road, or walk through the park. Doesn't take long. I rarely used public transport in Darlington, usually walked everywherecameron-darlo wrote:their defiantly too much... £1.30 from town to skerney is a fookin rip off!
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erm.. yeh it does.. i walk it every morning to get to college... you obviously walk faster than me then.
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The college is a 5 min walk further mate, but yeah i obviously do.cameron-darlo wrote:erm.. yeh it does.. i walk it every morning to get to college... you obviously walk faster than me then.
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not the pace i walk hahaAndyPark wrote:The college is a 5 min walk further mate, but yeah i obviously do.cameron-darlo wrote:erm.. yeh it does.. i walk it every morning to get to college... you obviously walk faster than me then.