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Article: Bus travellers' fury over fares increase
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- October 6, 2006
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BUS passengers in rural west Edinburgh have been left furious
after fares were hiked by up to 44 per cent in just six months.
A day ticket for the First service between South Queensferry and
Kirkliston to the city centre now costs GBP 3.60 - up from an off-
peak price of GBP 2.50 in April. The operator has now scrapped the
off-peak ticket and, if compared with other cities, the fare is the
second most expensive in First's UK operation, with only passengers
in Bristol paying more.
First is the only operator to run buses to and from South
Queensferry and Kirkliston. Even though residents there pay Edinburgh
council rates, they cannot ...