Bristol Live readers have reacted with a mixture of cynicism and weariness to the announcement by the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps that he’s proposing capping the fare for a single bus journey to £2.
Mr Shapps made the announcement in an article in the Daily Telegraph over the weekend, saying it would cost the taxpayer around £260 million to subsidise the buses so that every ticket was a maximum of £2, and that this would ‘inject some certainty into an unpredictable economic landscape’, with soaring energy bills.
But while the move was cautiously welcomed by the pressure group Campaign for Better Transport, Bristol Live readers were less enamoured by the idea, pointing out that it would only benefit bus users in Bristol by 20p a journey - and the bus has to turn up first.
