Here in Devon we charge dogs to travel on our buses. There have been many reasons put forward as to why we charge but the real reason is to stop dogs traveling on buses on their own. Just a minute I hear you say, dogs don't travel on their own on buses. But when I was driving a bus in London there was a dog that sat at a bus stop and when a bus stopped it got on. When it got to where it was going it would bark to let the driver know it wanted to get off. No problem as we didn't charge for dogs. But we do here. 50p single fare. It used to be 50p return but that went out the window last time the fares went up. There were one or three protests and now the company have introduced a Rover Rover . Rover can now travel as often as he/she likes on any Stagecoach bus in Devon for just 75p. All he needs is an adult on the other end of the lead. Please don't sit on a seat.
The company call the ticket a Dog Day Ticket but Rover Rover sounds better.
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You made that up - the dog that travelled around London by itself on the bus! Go on, admit it.
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No, it's true. He only went a few stops and always on the same route and only in the evening. A dog of habit.
With the old Timtronic Ticket Machines there were limitations on which letters could be used for each of the three available ticket class digits (ie only a partial alphabet of about 10 - 12 letters on each) - we found at an early stage that you couldn't use the combination which spelt DOG - so all our dog tickets were promptly prefixed CAT...when topmanagement eventually found out they quietly made dog travel free of charge!
I think if you suggested any thing for free to our topmanagement they would think you had said three.Free is not a word we are allowed to use ot they have ever heard of.
Out of the tickets from the "East Scotland" unit of Stagecoach (i.e. up here), there is a Strathtay Rover [Adult/Child/Sunday Family], Bluebird Explorer [Adult/Child/Sat or Sunday Family], Arbroath DayRider [Adult], Dunfermline DayRider {Adult/Group After9], Fife DayRider {Adult/Group After9], Glenrothes DayRider {Adult/Group After9], Kirkcaldy DayRider {Adult/Group After9], Levenmouth DayRider {Adult/Group After9], St Andrews DayRider {Adult/Group After9], SuperDayRider {Adult/Group After9], plus a few more that aren't sold on the bus. Oh yeah, and some come in up to four different formats, with different machines (Strathtay part have two, including conductors)... oh, and they don't charge for dogs. :-D
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