Arriva put Prices up again

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RE: Arriva put Prices up again

(26/02/2015 00:45)Enviro400 Wrote:  Any route that is shared by different operators eg the 86, 10 etc, should allow the use of either operators tickets, regardless of ticket type or whether the route is QBP. I don't understand why 1/2/471/472 on Wirral accept all tickets on both Arriva and Stagecoach yet the equivalent services in Liverpool do not. I also think the likes of the 14 and 79 should have to accept Halton and Arriva tickets for the shared route between the city and just past Belle Vale. It isn't the customers fault that, especially on the likes of the 86, a Stagecoach bus arrives when an Arriva 86A is timetabled, and those with Arriva tickets any more than weekly have to then wait for an Arriva bus, particularly at night. If bus companies want to share routes, then they should share the customers that they serve. Arriva and Stagecoach have got it right in Wirral, hopefully Liverpool can be sorted out prompt. Does anybody know of a reason why this is the case with tickets in Liverpool?

In the Wirral the QBP`s started when First had those routes, and both companies sold monthly tickets,Stagecoach carried over the same contract, but in Liverpool Stagecoach have always refused Arriva Monthly tickets on QBP Routes, as you say it`s unfair on passengers and can`t really be called a partnership if one partner refuses the others tickets.In a Similar veign on Merseytravel evening tenders the day and weekly tickets of the daytime regular operator of the route should be valid on the covering evening tender of the service,such as on the 62 where Stagecoach run evening journeys on which you can`t travel with Arriva tickets you may have bought just to use this service as it`s your only bus route.