ChrisC
Established Member
Last summer I spent a week in Plymouth and made use of a Plymouth Bus 7 Day ticket which I had loaded onto a Key Card. This was very useful for travel in and around Plymouth and also excellent value for days out to Padstow, Looe, Polperro and Bude. I registered my new Plymouth Bus Key card online, received my card through the post, and then purchased a 7 Day ticket online.
Next month I am going to be based in Brighton for a week and I have already purchased and registered a Metro Bus Key Card online and have received my card through the post, ready to purchase a 7 Day ticket online next week. Very good value as it allows travel on Brighton and Hove Buses in addition to Metro as long as my first journey is on a Metro Bus.
I now have a Plymouth Bus Key Card and a Metro Bus key Card and perhaps little likelihood of me using either of them again in the near future. If I went for another holiday where the main bus operator is Go-Ahead, like Dorset or The North East, I presume that I would have to keep obtaining more Key Cards for each individual area. Why can't they work for all areas like the Stagecoach Smartcard which I have used during the last few years in Kent and East Sussex, Lancashire and Cumbria, Norfolk and in June this year I'm going to use it in West Scotland. Have I got it correct that you can't use a Key Card in another area?
What puzzled me was that when I tried to obtain and register a new Key Card for Metro Bus my email address was twice rejected with the message that it was already in use. I had decided to use the same email and password that I had used for my Plymouth Bus Key Card. I then used an alternative email address, although the same password, and it was immediately accepted with no problems. Was my first email address rejected because I had already used it to register my Plymouth Bus Key Card or was it just some kind of error in the system? If so, perhaps Key cards from different areas are linked in some way, and could be adjusted to allow use in different areas without the need for separate cards.
Next month I am going to be based in Brighton for a week and I have already purchased and registered a Metro Bus Key Card online and have received my card through the post, ready to purchase a 7 Day ticket online next week. Very good value as it allows travel on Brighton and Hove Buses in addition to Metro as long as my first journey is on a Metro Bus.
I now have a Plymouth Bus Key Card and a Metro Bus key Card and perhaps little likelihood of me using either of them again in the near future. If I went for another holiday where the main bus operator is Go-Ahead, like Dorset or The North East, I presume that I would have to keep obtaining more Key Cards for each individual area. Why can't they work for all areas like the Stagecoach Smartcard which I have used during the last few years in Kent and East Sussex, Lancashire and Cumbria, Norfolk and in June this year I'm going to use it in West Scotland. Have I got it correct that you can't use a Key Card in another area?
What puzzled me was that when I tried to obtain and register a new Key Card for Metro Bus my email address was twice rejected with the message that it was already in use. I had decided to use the same email and password that I had used for my Plymouth Bus Key Card. I then used an alternative email address, although the same password, and it was immediately accepted with no problems. Was my first email address rejected because I had already used it to register my Plymouth Bus Key Card or was it just some kind of error in the system? If so, perhaps Key cards from different areas are linked in some way, and could be adjusted to allow use in different areas without the need for separate cards.