Stop pricing passengers off Yorkshire’s buses – Yorkshire Post Letters

MY husband and I live in Pocklington. In response to recent coverage on buses, we would love to be able to use the bus more often and leave the car at home.

However, if we go to York on the bus, it costs us £15.40 for a return ticket for the both of 
us. If we wanted to go to 
Beverley, it would cost us £24 
for a return ticket for the both of us.

There are times we would have liked to go to an event on an evening in York, especially at Christmas, and may be have a couple of drinks before heading home.

As well as costing a fortune, the buses stop running 
quite early. Midweek it’s at 
21.05, Friday and Saturday 
it’s 22.05 and Sunday it’s 
18.57.

It seems to me that the only people who can use the bus these days are the pensioners with their free bus passes and schoolchildren and students 
if they are entitled to a bus
pass.

Also, I understand that bus fares are much cheaper in London and Londoners still get a bus pass at the age of 60, while the rest of England have to wait until pension age, and then it might even be phased out by the time some of us reach the Government pension age.

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Thank you

James Mitchinson