Nearly 8 fucking quid (£7.90) for a journey that takes 20 mins. At one point with railcards + the abolition of peak fares I was paying £3.10. Was around £5 without.
I feel sorry for anyone commuting further. Absolute rip off for a subpar service.
A step in the wrong direction sadly 🙁
Yet another not direct outcome of Brexit.
Back up to almost £45 quid for an anytime return from Dundee to Edinburgh.
Pretty much the same price as a full tank of petrol, which would get me multiple trips.
Pretty much the same price as a wee food shop for me.
It’s just way out of whack. I’m not getting £45 worth of value from the service, either.
Just over £15 for a 25 minute journey into Edinburgh. What the fuck.
An absolute waste of a nationalised service
10 journey flexipass gives you 12 journeys at the moment and is working out cheaper for me than the off peak tickets were last week.
This is something that I am really disappointed about. The reduction in cost made a real difference to me.
Now back to £18.90 for a day return for me. With the cheap tickets I was saving about £100 a month.
May was well go back to taking the car as it gets me nearer to my place of work, t is a more comfortable environment, and cheaper.
I’m waiting to find out how this is Westminsters Fault.
Top tip. Just get a kids ticket on the mobile app. They never check. Boom, back to off peak prices.
The scraping of the peak fares was always another election headline gimmick from the SNP to think they were actually doing something worthwhile.
Ultimately the train is a failed business model, it doesn’t survive unless it has huge subsidies and should go the way of the canals, but back to reality, we can’t get rid of it. The pilot program apparently showed that it didn’t encourage more train users but it only cost £40m. I would say that that is not a bad spend to bring down the mad rail prices. We p*ss vastly more than that on stupid pet projects or SNP f*ck ups.
So they are making public transport more affordable right?
Right?
£30 return from Glasgow to Edinburgh… i’ll be getting the £8 return via CityLink buses!
I know it sucks but it was meant to encourage a significant amount of people to switch from cars to trains.
It wasn’t successful.
It’s quite mature of the govt to acknowledge the scheme was a failure and end it.
Does this mean that Scotrail will be returning to their previous timetable? They can’t even run the reduced timetable on time.
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Nearly 8 fucking quid (£7.90) for a journey that takes 20 mins. At one point with railcards + the abolition of peak fares I was paying £3.10. Was around £5 without.
I feel sorry for anyone commuting further. Absolute rip off for a subpar service.
A step in the wrong direction sadly 🙁
Yet another not direct outcome of Brexit.
Back up to almost £45 quid for an anytime return from Dundee to Edinburgh.
Pretty much the same price as a full tank of petrol, which would get me multiple trips.
Pretty much the same price as a wee food shop for me.
It’s just way out of whack. I’m not getting £45 worth of value from the service, either.
Just over £15 for a 25 minute journey into Edinburgh. What the fuck.
An absolute waste of a nationalised service
10 journey flexipass gives you 12 journeys at the moment and is working out cheaper for me than the off peak tickets were last week.
This is something that I am really disappointed about. The reduction in cost made a real difference to me.
Now back to £18.90 for a day return for me. With the cheap tickets I was saving about £100 a month.
May was well go back to taking the car as it gets me nearer to my place of work, t is a more comfortable environment, and cheaper.
I’m waiting to find out how this is Westminsters Fault.
Top tip. Just get a kids ticket on the mobile app. They never check. Boom, back to off peak prices.
The scraping of the peak fares was always another election headline gimmick from the SNP to think they were actually doing something worthwhile.
Ultimately the train is a failed business model, it doesn’t survive unless it has huge subsidies and should go the way of the canals, but back to reality, we can’t get rid of it. The pilot program apparently showed that it didn’t encourage more train users but it only cost £40m. I would say that that is not a bad spend to bring down the mad rail prices. We p*ss vastly more than that on stupid pet projects or SNP f*ck ups.
So they are making public transport more affordable right?
Right?
£30 return from Glasgow to Edinburgh… i’ll be getting the £8 return via CityLink buses!
I know it sucks but it was meant to encourage a significant amount of people to switch from cars to trains.
It wasn’t successful.
It’s quite mature of the govt to acknowledge the scheme was a failure and end it.
Does this mean that Scotrail will be returning to their previous timetable? They can’t even run the reduced timetable on time.