Single bus fares are to stay capped at £2 until the end of October, Brighton and Hove Buses said this afternoon (Tuesday 27 June).
The bus company said: “The offer, funded through the government’s ‘Help for Households’ programme, aims to help the public with continuing cost of living pressures.
“This means that passengers can continue to make big savings from longer bus routes.
“For example, the Regency Route between Brighton and Tunbridge Wells, usually £6.80 (33 miles), and the 5 route between Hangleton and Brighton, usually £3.10 (4.3 miles), will be capped at £2.
“The initiative, which ends on Tuesday 31 October, will help millions of passengers with travel costs for work, education, and essential journeys.”
Brighton and Hove Buses commercial director Nick Hill said: “With cost of living pressures still affecting local residents, we are happy to be able to continue offering our passengers capped fares for the rest of summer and into autumn.
“The scheme will enable passengers to go further than ever for £2 so everyone can enjoy a little more freedom when using our services.”
The busses have been a lot busier since introducing this, now for a cross city express bus please. The 25X, 28, 29 & 29x should be extended to have town hall at the very least. This genuinely would temp me to make the switch permanently
Fair play , power to the people.
Great news, love to see families travelling by bus!
Very good news 🙌🏻
This is a government scheme, not B&H Buses, all fares throughout the country are capped
Hmm, Nick Hill thinks were all daft, speaks as if he’s doing us all a great favour when in fact its a Government scheme.
They are not obliged to apply the scheme. There are plenty around the country that have not… so I wouldn’t ‘dis it’ ..