tramboy
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Cardiff Bus* currently have an offer (until 16th December) whereby all single journeys that start or finish in Cardiff after 9.30am on Monday to Friday are reduced to £1:
However, implementation seems patchy at best. My host had been charged fairly randomly - to the point he wasn't actually sure what the rules were, and of my four journeys, I was charged £1 for three, and £2 for one (inbound). Some cash payers also seem to have lost out by dumping their money into the fare vault before the driver was able to tell them (in the case of two local teenagers, they wouldn't even listen to the driver attempting to persuade them to pay for each other, so they didn't overpay!).
The fare vaults seem to cause other issues too - on one journey was operated by an Omnicity, and you had to bend your hand around the vault to put your card on the contactless reader, then somehow scoop your ticket out of a letterbox-sized gap between the top of the vault and the Covid/assault screen. Not the most customer-friendly of designs!
* It seems as though this is actually valid on other operators as well: https://www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25/28121.html.
Not knowing very much about Cardiff services as a pure visitor, Easyway service 32A seem to be the only exception?
It's a Council sponsored scheme that has been implemented in the run up to Christmas - Cardiff not wanting to be left out seemingly as bus fares in Newport have been made free at all times until Christmas Eve - see link below:
Free bus journeys in December
www.newport.gov.uk
The additional Covid screens do get in the way on certain types of vehicle - anything of an Omnicity type (including the soon to be retired artics) are quite awkward!