"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:37:03 on Fri, 14 Dec
2012, Roland Perry remarked:

I've asked about this on another specialist list and will report back if
we can nail this down at all.

A question comes back: "when you swipe the Paywave card, does the terminal
on the bus give you a receipt"? (A small thermal printed
thing I suppose).

Oyster cards don't, as we all know.

OOI what do national twirly passes do on London buses?

Out in the sticks pax are given paper receipts, but I guess that's because
they aren't flat fare [1] and there needs to be some proof that the driver
has "claimed" the correct fare.

tim

[1] is there anywhere else in the county that runs a flat fare system across
their network?

In message , at 19:33:07 on Fri, 14
Dec 2012, tim..... remarked:
[1] is there anywhere else in the county that runs a flat fare system
across their network?

Nottingham City Transport is almost flat-fare. £1.70 single and £3.40
for an all-day ticket.

But there are a few wrinkles, like group tickets that are also cheaper
during school holidays, and the single fare for a night bus is £3. And
they've recently invented an "Inner Zone" (approx 3 mile square) with a
£2 day-return.
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Roland Perry

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:33:07 -0000, "tim....."
wrote:

OOI what do national twirly passes do on London buses?

As already mentioned, there's no ticket, and there won't be once they
are read by the machine either.

Out in the sticks pax are given paper receipts, but I guess that's because
they aren't flat fare [1] and there needs to be some proof that the driver
has "claimed" the correct fare.

Only in some areas -- many that used to issue tickets have stopped.
They generally *are* flat fare, the local authority paying a fixed
amount per use.

[1] is there anywhere else in the county that runs a flat fare system across
their network?

Brighton and Hove is one.

Richard.

On 22/12/2012 10:24, Richard wrote:
[...]
[1] is there anywhere else in the county that runs a flat fare system across
their network?

Brighton and Hove is one.

Not quite - there's a "Standard Fare" of £2.20, a "Short Hop Fare" of
£1.50, a "CentreFare" (for travel in the centre of Brighton and Hove) of
£2.00, plus more expensive fares for journeys that travel outside
Brighton and Hove, and also for night buses.

So a 'flat-ish fare' system rather than a strict flat fare.

http://www.buses.co.uk/tickets/index.aspx