Friday, 28 August 2009

Great idea

I hope we follow suit. This sign is on the first bus i just got on. Stupid idea giving pensioners tickets when they have a free pass. I know it's the pte that specified this action of giving tickets but how are first stopping it and we are not! This is from 30th august.

4 comments:

  1. Some drivers just wave you on and others get shirty if you don't wait for the ticket.

    I kind of assumed the ticket was issued as a way of monitoring how many passengers had been on but it does seem a lot of unnecessary paper and issuing them does delay the boarding.

    When I was in Blackpool last year I noticed that there the drivers insisted on knowing your destination stop whilst here they just but the terminus on the ticket.

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  2. You only need a ticket if you are doing a transfer.

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  3. I know that Bluebird have the same machines as First do and they have been registering free passes without issuing tickets for quite a while now

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  4. Its very time consuming especially on busy routes like the 330 where 80% of the daytime passengers are pensioners going to Hyde. We have enough to look out for without having people dithering waiting for a ticket thats pointlss.

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