The Great Bus Rip Off

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

I could no longer afford to be a bus due to a massive hike in the licence fee.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

why should a fan have to find a different bus company, he has come to the STAR section of HNA to ask if perhaps STAR could get involved, yet once again gets the old response, why not join and help as we cannot do it alone, and we cannot peruse HNA to see if something is posted on here.

Perhaps he/she is a STAR member, and perhaps he/she thought this was the place to ask for advice or to see if STAR are interested.

We know that all the STAR folk are volunteers, but does it really need this same response so often?

Have you thought about joining and airing your views to the board?

Not my thing, I have had contact with folk from STAR, and been on their side many times, I like a lot of what they do, and have got involved from outside, as G Marx said

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

[Charles Dapper]

I was a STAR member and I'm not really sure why I stopped.

I think it was something to do with missing Royalty points, but that's another story and something I'm not interested about now.

I apologise, you are right, I could/should have contacted STAR directly.
My reasons for going about this way was to get a general reaction to what is going on.
I want to see if there is more that just me who is really annoyed about this.

Public transport should be cheap and affordable

I would politely ask the Hob Nob moderater if there is any chance of getting this thread turned into a poll.

And place onto the home page so everyone can see it.
If I am in a minority and no one else seems to think we're being ripped off then I'll drift away quietly and admin I was wrong.

If I'm right then lets actually do something about it, after all we have the power (steps down from soap box )

A question?

Does anyone know what is happening about the Green Park Station?

Is it going to happen?

Will it be a branch off of the Basingstoke Line or as I now suspect just a station bolted onto that.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

try the thread about the station??????

[Dirk Gently]

......A question?

Does anyone know what is happening about the Green Park Station?

Is it going to happen?

Will it be a branch off of the Basingstoke Line or as I now suspect just a station bolted onto that.

Yes.

Yes - being built now.

An extra station, with no extra trains and no siding capacity etc to make trans wait for matches etc.

See the later pages of http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=61077&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=180 for more detailed info and maps.

[warrpp]

was it £3 or £3.50 return from the station last season ?

[Huntley & Palmer]

£3.50, which was an increase of 50p from the previous season

[66DD]

Ao presumablt that means that it will be £6 from Twyford then. I'll have to think seriously about supporting my local team at these prices.

[Ian Royal]

Train station is good news for me. I can't see it adding significantly to the cost of a train from Cambridge. If it does, I'll just carry on walking from Reading.

[Upper West Ginger]

Train station is good news for me. I can't see it adding significantly to the cost of a train from Cambridge. If it does, I'll just carry on walking from Reading.

Fares for rail journeys - other than for local travel - tend to be priced on a fare between two groups of stations, rather than providing a huge matrix of fares between every possible combination of stations. The "Reading Group" of stations includes (amongst others) Reading West and Mortimer, which are either side of the Green Park station site. So it is safe to assume that the fare from Cambridge to the new Green Park station will be the same as to Reading itself.

[Ian Royal]

Train station is good news for me. I can't see it adding significantly to the cost of a train from Cambridge. If it does, I'll just carry on walking from Reading.

Fares for rail journeys - other than for local travel - tend to be priced on a fare between two groups of stations, rather than providing a huge matrix of fares between every possible combination of stations. The "Reading Group" of stations includes (amongst others) Reading West and Mortimer, which are either side of the Green Park station site. So it is safe to assume that the fare from Cambridge to the new Green Park station will be the same as to Reading itself.

sweet as

[STAR Liaison]

STAR raised this with RFC only to find they were already on the case and close to agreement with Reading Buses. There will now be no raise in the fares on buses 77 and 79 - there will still be a 50p increase on buses 70 to 76.

For the Burton game only bus 79 will be running.

[rabidbee]

Fair play to RFC then - doesn't get said often enough on Hob Nob.

[working class hero]

Walking through town is pleasant enough but once you hit the dual carriage-way it seems to take for ever.45m-1 hour can be quite nackering, especially if you have been going through the emotions rather then sitting on your hands all game. Hopefully when the the station is built people will have a suitable alternative and be able to vote with there feet.

Surely walking would be more of a vote with the feet.

Perhaps switching to the train would be more a case of putting your money where your mouth is???

[Ian Royal]

Walking through town is pleasant enough but once you hit the dual carriage-way it seems to take for ever.45m-1 hour can be quite nackering, especially if you have been going through the emotions rather then sitting on your hands all game. Hopefully when the the station is built people will have a suitable alternative and be able to vote with there feet.

Surely walking would be more of a vote with the feet.

Perhaps switching to the train would be more a case of putting your money where your mouth is???

Would a train from Reading really cost less than the bus? I doubt it, iirc it's over £3 to Theale. Not many are going to take something as expensive which still means a walk unless it comes as part of their fair already or they are on that line anyway.

[rabidbee]

Yeah, the train is surely to encouage fewer to drive to the games.

[Elm Park]

STAR raised this with RFC only to find they were already on the case and close to agreement with Reading Buses. There will now be no raise in the fares on buses 77 and 79 - there will still be a 50p increase on buses 70 to 76.

For the Burton game only bus 79 will be running.

Well done for trying to do something but it's still a rip-off. There are 3 or 4 of us as a family on match days, that's an extra £2 per game.
£13/£18 compared to £8 for car parking. Shame we used the bus most games last season, not this.

[weybridgewanderer]

STAR raised this with RFC only to find they were already on the case and close to agreement with Reading Buses. There will now be no raise in the fares on buses 77 and 79 - there will still be a 50p increase on buses 70 to 76.

stageoach have kept the "outside reading"fare at £5.50

[Forbury Lion]

Shinfield Road to Madejski is £5 return now and the bus gets at the stadium an hour before kick off so your sat around bored (good practive for the game itself then).

If you have a £10 weekly south reading travel card you can get the number 9 to the engineers, change to the number 5 and get off at Gillettes on the basingstoke road and it won't cost you a penny more than the £10 you paid for your weekly ticket. Admittedly there is a 15 minute walk to the ground. alternatively catch the 9 into town and the 6 out again.

£115 a season saved for attending all home games.

Actually, you could buy a bicycle for about that price.

[handbags_harris]

It takes me 40 minutes to walk from my residence at Shinfield Park. Those on the Shinfield Road would surely not have much more of a walk?