[bb21]

London: £2.30 cash single fare (£1.35 Oyster).
Need to change buses? You pay double.

Paris: €1.70 cash single fare (€1.27 each when buying 10).
Need to change buses? Unlimited transfer within 90 minutes (unless bought from driver).

If Paris can do it, why can London not?

[WatcherZero]

For a start london has around three times as many bus routes.

[AlexHunter1984]

Originally Posted by flymo

As a slight aside, in Tyne and Wear around then there was a ticketing system that did exactly that, you pay for the whole journey on the first mode of transport. TRANSFARES.

These tickets would cover the whole journey wholly within Tyne and Wear and were valid for example on bus-bus-bus or bus-Metro-bus or Metro-bus-ferry etc...
Brilliant system which was all but dissolved at deregulation or soon thereafter, Shame really as it really did work well.

Transfare's still exist, although I'm not sure if they're well used these days.

[bb21]

Originally Posted by WatcherZero

For a start london has around three times as many bus routes.

Which would make even more sense to allow transfers, surely?

[radamfi]

Paris is actually worse than most of France (and Europe) because bus to metro transfers aren't free.

[ReverendFozz]

Where I live Go North East offer an easy enough to understand fare system, they offer a mixture of two-tiered single fares and day tickets, I am not sure if these can be easily found on the internet but GNE is easy contactable over Facebook, Twitter and they have an open line real time chat once a week.

An example of GNE fare structure in my area is divided into Zones, my area Murton and Seaham has a 2 tiered fare system

1 Zone: About £1.20
2+ Zones: About £1.80

GNE also scrapped return tickets in favour of a day ticket, my local day ticket being about £2.70.

[LE Greys]

Originally Posted by ReverendFozz

Where I live Go North East offer an easy enough to understand fare system, they offer a mixture of two-tiered single fares and day tickets, I am not sure if these can be easily found on the internet but GNE is easy contactable over Facebook, Twitter and they have an open line real time chat once a week.

An example of GNE fare structure in my area is divided into Zones, my area Murton and Seaham has a 2 tiered fare system

1 Zone: About £1.20
2+ Zones: About £1.80

GNE also scrapped return tickets in favour of a day ticket, my local day ticket being about £2.70.

Almost exactly the same in Aberdeen on First, although day tickets have gone up to £3:20 recently. If I'm travelling, I've taken to buying rail tickets with a Plusbus (a nice £2) and using them for several journeys (which seems to be allowed). There's been a nasty case of fare inflation for the last eight years, it started off as 50p and £1, then grew at approximately 10p a year.

The thing that always throws a country boy like me is 'buy before you travel', especially in London. I turn up, go to the driver and expect to just ask for the fare. Without local knowledge, I assume the fares are graded in the same way as rural bus fares and returns exist. This has caused a lot of embarassment in the past, but I think I've got the hang of it now.