Stagecoach East bus fares to rise and £1 promotion to end – plus how to get 30% off megarider tickets in January 2024
Most Stagecoach East single bus fares below £2 are to go up between 10p and 20p from Sunday, 28 January.
Its £1 promotional fare - in operation for journeys between Cambridge city centre, the railway station and Biomedical Campus - will also be brought back into line with its lowest priced single fares, at £1.80 for adults and £1.20 for youths.
The bus company is running 30 per cent reductions on the prices of adult Megarider tickets until January 31, enabling adults to pay youth prices for the tickets, which provide unlimited travel over seven or 28 days.
Using the code EASTYOUTHJAN7, adults can save £16 on a seven-day Megarider for the east zone and pay £36, and the same ticket for a town zone will cost £14, a saving of £6. A seven-day Megarider Plus will cost £22, saving £10.
WIth the code EASTYOUTHJAN28, adults can save £50 on an east zone ticket and pay £115 or pay £51 for unlimited travel for 28 days throughout a town zone, making a £22 saving. A 28-day Megarider Plus will cost £78, saving £34.
Darren Roe, managing director of Stagecoach East, said: “Bus travel offers one of the best value methods of travel available today. We are proud to bring communities together across the city of Cambridge and the wider region in a very affordable way.
“Of course, we need to ensure that the network is sustainable into the future, so the promotion is now coming to an end, and we are introducing a new low fare. These are important, and sometimes difficult, decisions to make because money from fares goes towards the day-to-day operation of bus services, as well as being reinvested into improvements.
“We are hugely proud of the value we offer. Across our region as a whole, passengers can always take advantage of the government’s £2 single fare cap scheme, which means that our passengers will continue to pay no more than £2 per single journey until at least the end of June 2024.”
