Trivia: Different fares for peak travel

[Simon75]

Are there many services/companies that charge different fares for peak hours ?

 

[318266]

McGill's ClydeFlyer (901/906/906X) charge you more to travel on certain peak services

 

[Flange Squeal]

The Reading All-Bus and Reading Buses Simply Network group fares differ depending on whether travelling peak or off peak.

On the day fares

Use cash, contactless or your mobile to pay on the bus.

www.reading-buses.co.uk

Reading All-Bus group ticket - up to 4 people​

Valid for up to four people (any combination of adults and children) travelling together - valid all day on all buses (even those from other operators) within the simplyReading area. The ticket has a 'peak' price (Monday to Friday before 9.30am) and 'off-peak' price (Monday to Friday after 9.30am, all day weekends & public holidays.)

off-peak	£5.50
peak	£9

simplyNetwork group ticket​

Valid for up to four people (any combination of adults and children) travelling together - valid all day on all our buses. The ticket has a 'peak' price (Monday to Friday before 9.30am) and 'off-peak' price (Monday to Friday after 9.30am, all day weekends, school & public holidays.)

peak	£20
off-peak	£15

 

[miklcct]

The Green Line routes to Reading did so in the past even for a return (before noon or after noon). However it's now irrelevant due to the £2 cap on fares)

 

[Stan Drews]

McGill's ClydeFlyer (901/906/906X) charge you more to travel on certain peak services

The normal fares are the same, but they do have some special off-peak return fares available.

 

[318266]

The normal fares are the same, but they do have some special off-peak return fares available.

I have a concession card anyway, so you get a cut of the (suspiciously overpriced) single fare. Wouldn't really call it special though, it's basically the railway system with no off-peak day single (which I find rare in this area anyway)

 

[Deerfold]

Until the cur in price of the all-operator ticket from £6.50 to £4.50, earlier this year, most operators in West Yorkshire had pre- and post- 0930 prices for their own day tickets. The only reason to have their own tickets now is for cross-border services and none have kept the peak/off-peak distinction. The only tickets in West Yorkshire with a variant valid on buses before 0930 and one that isn't are the bus and train day tickets - all county after 0930 is £10.10 (with further afternoon peak restrictions on trains) and peak which vary between £12.30 and £15.60 depending on rail zones.