Ticket cost to rise in transport shake-up

TRANSPORT CHIEFS have announced price hikes for bus and tram passengers buying multioperator tickets in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.

All changes to tickets will come into force on Tuesday January 2, 2018.

A Sheffield CityBus ticket – which allows passengers to board any bus in the city on a particular day – is going up from £4.30 to £4.50. A weekly CityBus ticket is set to rise from £15 to £15.80 while a monthly pass will increase by £3 to £59.

CityWide passes, which include Supertrams, will rise from £4.50 a day to £4.80 and weekly tickets will rise 80p to £16.80.

Transport chiefs said the price hikes have been implemented following an ‘extensive price review’.

They claim the prices are still some of the ‘best-value’ multioperator and multi-modal tickets in the country, with passengers in some cases ‘paying over 30 per cent more for equivalent tickets in Leeds and up to 50 per cent more in equivalent tickets in Manchester’.

Matt Smallwood, general manager of TravelMaster, said: “Increasing the cost to customers of our products is always a difficult decision.

“These changes have been introduced to ensure that our range remains sustainable for us and local operators and that we can continue to offer South Yorkshire’s transport users some of the best value multi-operator tickets in the country.”