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BUSES FARES * UK: In North Ireland fares will not go up

* Belfast - Fares freeze for NI buses

-- Transport Minister Michelle McIlveen said, she took the decision in light of falling fuel costs and to encourage greater use of public transport... Last year, saw the average train ticket price rise by 4.5 percent, which Translink described as “a last resort”... But with slower than expected growth in the use of rail and bus services in 2015, along with a difficult economic climate and comparatively low fuel costs, the minister decided a further increase would only deter people from using these services...
Belfast, NI, UK - UTV - 25 MAR 2016

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FARE PRICES * Vietnam - Taxis And Buses Ordered To Post Passenger Fares On Vehicles

Buses will have to post their daily and monthly fares while taxies will have to post relevant fees on their doors

Hanoi,Vietnam - Vietnam news agency /Bernama -October 7, 2010: -- The Transport and Finance ministries have instructed all buses and taxies to publicly post fare prices on their vehicles as of October 10, to prevent passengers being over-charged... Passenger and tourist coaches and lorries following fixed routes will also be required to post their rates on the outside of their vehicles... Transportation businesses must post their rates at ticket sales points, and on their vehicle doors... The ministries added that businesses that violate the new ruling will be subject to administrative punishment based on their level of infringement, and will be forced to compensate customers... Deputy Chief Inspector of Hanoi Transport Department, Hoang Van Manh said one of key reasons for the chaos associated with taxes, coaches and buses, was the increase in the sheer number of vehicles, which made it difficult for authorities to control... There are around 400,000 vehicles involved in transport services nationwide, including more than 100,000 over nine-seat coaches and 30,000 under eight-seat taxies... (Photo from vietnamcustomizedtours: Open Tour, Vietnam Bus Budget Travel)

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Bus Fares * UK - Up by 8%

Sheffield,England,UK -The Star, by Richard Marsden -12 December 2008: -- South Yorkshire's biggest bus company today announced it is increasing fares by an average of eight per cent in the new year... First is putting up its prices despite falling oil prices - because it bulk-bought its fuel for next year in the summer, when the cost was high... But the rise also follows a hefty increase in First Group's UK profits and despite its South Yorkshire arm already charging more than some of the firm's other British bus subsidiaries... (Photo: £5m investment: Brandon Jones with First’s new buses which have partly been blamed for the rise)

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FARES * Vietnam - Hanoi bus fares follow fuel prices up

Bus fares for routes between Hanoi and other provinces jumped Sunday

Hanoi,Vietnam -Thanh Nien Daily (Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam) -March 10, 2008: -- A ticket for the route between Hanoi and Vinh Town of central Nghe An Province went up from VND73,000 (US$4.60) to VND100,000 ($6.25) for high-quality buses and from VND65,000 ($4) to VND90,000 ($5.60) for other types of buses... The fare between Hanoi and northern Ha Tinh Province increased from VND20,000 to VND 25,000 ($1.25-$1.60), depending on the destination... Fares between Hanoi and central Quang Ngai Province increased from VND260,000 ($16.25) to VND310,000 ($19.40) per ticket... The capital city’s passenger transport enterprises said the increase resulted from last month’s fuel price hikes... However, Vietnam Transport Association’s Chairman Nguyen Manh Hung said the increase in bus fares was unreasonable, compared with the fuel price rise... (Photo: Passengers at a bus station in Hanoi)

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FARES * UK - Hike on local buses

Rising fuel costs have been cited as one of the reasons for the increase

Carnoustie,Scotland,UK -The Guide and Gazette (Arbroath,Scotland) -3 March 2008: -- Fares on Stagecoach Strathtay buses are to rise again, the company has announced... A spokesperson said that rising fuel costs and a Scottish Government freeze on funding support for bus operators has forced the company to increase bus fares in Dundee, Angus and Perth from next month... Stagecoach revealed that the company's fuel costs are eight per cent higher than they would have been following two key Scottish policy changes that have put bus operators north of the Border at a disadvantage... (Picture: Rising fuel costs have been cited as one of the reasons for the increase)

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Bus Fare * Viet Nam - Hikes, cause passenger misery

Transport companies decided to increase inter-province service fares on major northern lines last week

Hanoi,Vietnam -VietNamNet Bridge -31 Dec 2007: -- ... According to the Ha Noi Bus Station Management Company, 10 lines operating the Hanoi to Thai Binh and Thanh Hoa routes agreed to raise fares by between VND5,000-9,000 (US$0.4-0.6) for a one-way ticket, attributing the rise to high fuel prices... However, the increase has met with a mixed reaction from bus passengers. Le Thi Bich Tam, 24, from Thanh Hoa City, a regular passenger on the Hanoi-Thanh Hoa bus route, said that the new fare would cost her dearly... "My family is in Thanh Hoa while I work in Hanoi," said Bich. "Therefore, I frequently use the service on the week-ends to visit the family. Due to the new high fares, I definitely would think twice every time I want to visit home."

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Increases * USA - New York Transit Agency Approves Fare & Toll ones

Fares will rise an average of 4 percent next year on New York City's subways, buses and commuter trains and some bridges and tunnels after the board of the largest U.S. mass-transit agency approved the increase

N.Y.,USA -Bloomberg, by Chris Dolmetsch -Dec. 19, 2007: -- ... The increase, the first since 2005 for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, will begin to take effect in March. The state agency says it needs the money to maintain service, ensure safety, handle more riders and close a budget shortfall projected to climb to as high as $2.1 billion by 2011... Transit agencies throughout U.S. are raising tolls and fares to fund improvements and expansions as ridership increases because of rising gas prices and crowded highways. An expanding economy is also boosting passenger loads in the New York City region... (Photographer: Chip East/Bloomberg News: Commuters fill a downtown Lexington Avenue subway train in New York, on Aug. 8, 2007)

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* UK - The rise and rise of bus fares . . and the drop in users

Passengers are paying three times as much to use the bus than they were 20 years ago

Liverpool,UK -The Liverpool Echo, by Nick Coligan -Oct 22 2007: -- ... The average cost of a peak fare has rocketed from 70p in 1986 to £2.10 today – an increase of 200%... The rise is way above the rate of inflation and compares with an average national climb over two decades of 50%... The ECHO can reveal the figures on the 21st anniversary of the deregulation of buses, which took responsibility for running the network away from councils and gave it to private firms...

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Study * Malaysia - On Bus and Taxi Fares

Putrajaya,Malaysia -The Malaysia Star -August 30, 2007: -- Express bus and taxi operators may have their fares revised after the Entrepreneurial and Cooperative Development Ministry put in a proposal for a study on the matter... Its minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the study – to be carried out by the Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CVLB) – would, among others, see the further tightening of regulations in the awarding of express bus and taxi permits to operators, the profiling of drivers and the possible implementation of a global positioning system (GPS) for buses and electronic ticketing to overcome touting... Khaled said that in future, the awarding of permits to bus operators would take into consideration management aspects like drivers’ training courses and the controlling of their fleet besides the size of the starting capital... (Picture by sg.geocities.com/malaysia_bus)

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