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Originally Posted by ruth1304
I collect mine in a pot until I have enough to pay it into the bank.
It is impossible to keep local bus drivers happy. Too much change is bad, but if they have to give you change that is also bad, and you end up with a "change receipt". You have to take this to the bus station and exchange it for money. There's a time limit on it, which has been increased as it was originally 7 days and there were complaints.
And I would love to pay £1.20 for a bus ticket. A single home from my current workplace is about £2.30 (about 3 miles). A return before 9am is very expensive - not sure how much as the driver always sells me a day ticket which is £4.20 because it's cheaper. After 9.00 the day ticket goes down to 3.90, and last time I got a return to work at that time it was £3.60. A single ticket for a shorter journey into the city centre is £1.80. I usually walk  |
crikey !!
that's EXPENSIVE !!! here, you can buy a pack of 10 tickets (un carnet) for 11.40, so that makes 1.14€ / ticket (it's slightly more expensive if you buy them one by one). with one ticket you can go anywhere inside of the city limits and close suburbs, and they are also valid for the metro and trams. these tickets are valid at any time of the day or night, there are not special fares depending on rush hour traffic or not (although i would strongly advise anyone stay the hell off the bus during rush hour). on buses you can now use one ticket to transfer between 2 buses under certain conditions. i think the time between buses must be no more than 20 minutes and the entire trip not more than 2.5 hours, or something. not sure exactly. i've managed to use 1 ticket for both directions of a trip, when i just had a short errand to do (dropping something off in a shop then going directly home), and i've also managed to take a bus, get off partway to my destination to do an errand, and then get back on another bus to complete my trip on the same ticket.