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Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.

www.gov.uk Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3

The £3 fare cap will keep bus travel affordable while ensuring it is fair to taxpayers.

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Great.

Now do trains
- The cap has been increased by ~~150~~ 50% from £2 to £3.
  
  Please under no circumstances do trains.
  
  I think they're referring to actually having a cap.
  
  Also it's a 50% increase not 150%.
- I love playing "will the train be cancelled today?" every morning. Luckily covid's WFH revolution means I have a plan b, but for people who have to go in every day... I pity them.
  
  I don't know how people can rely on trains for a commute without getting sacked. Do they have to catch the train 1-2 hours earlier than they should need to?
Are you some kind of shill ?

The story is it’s increased by 50% from £2
- Only if you are looking for false negatives.
  
  The story is the discount was planned to end. But has instead been reduced by 50%.
  
  You can only claim it is an increase if you claim a discount was not planned to end. And that is just a lie.
  
  Not to mention a rather desperate effort to ignore the 1bln investment in buses. Something the government has not done outside London since privatisation.
  
  You could argue that the story is that labour didn't decide to continue the full discount (and have therefore put up the price) when they could have.
  
  I would prefer more/better services over price, but a lot of others depends on the current price of the existing busses.
  
  They could have renewed it at £2 and still increased the funding without taking it from people who rely on public transport.
  
  No false dichotomies please.
  
  That’s so ridiculous I’m lost for words, quite frankly. To suggest a 50% increase is a positive because it could have been worse is at best very stupid and worst, dishonest .
  
  It seems feddit has been captured by the party faithful . At least we know now.
- Shill for who exactly?
  
  I just thought that this news is worth sharing.
  
  Big bus.
  We know they're paying you off with day savers, don't deny it!
  
  Every single news outlet bar none is reporting g the real story which is that it’s a 50% increase from the previous cap of £2

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