Roland Perry wrote:

Out in the provinces the existence of "all day" tickets (typically
around
£4) means people only have to pay once, and combine that with an "exact
change only" policy and it's quicker overall than having people fumbling
in their purses to find their bus pass.

Providing of course later buses are signed up to the all day tickets. Many
a
traveller has tales of being caught in a suburb or satellite village and
finding the only buses that turn up at that time won't accept the already
purchased ticket.

All-day tickets that are interavailable between operators are generally
harder to find and more expensive. I've never found that people *expect*
an all-day ticket to intervailable,

It may be a specific thing for Londoners and perhaps those from abroad, but
I've certainly experienced people misunderstanding the nature of all-day,
all-evening, return and similar tickets where the wording immediately
available isn't the clearest and can lead to the assumption it means all
buses in the area.

so checking that the suburb you are travelling back from has buses from
the right company, at the time you need them, is an inevitable (but
trivially easy) part of the exercise.

Inevitable perhaps but often not so trivially easy, particularly when the
information about meetings and the like doesn't carry it. Part of the
problem may be locals not thinking about this because the system is second
hand to them.

And this information isn't always easy to find online.

For Nottingham, where I lived and there were several all-day tickets
available, such information is very easy to find online.

My visits to Nottingham have been fairly limited but in general it's been
one of the easier cities to get round the system without needing to find a
native.

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