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Is it time that the railways get rid of the ridiculous requirement to need a photocard to purchase weekly and monthly season tickets?
It just makes the weekly and monthly tickets so inconvenient as you have to get a photocard first and then you always have to remember to carry it with you when you travel. It would be so much more simple to able to just easily purchase a weekly or monthly ticket just like a Single/Return/Day ticket without having to worry about photocards or anything.
I work as a bus driver for small independent bus operator and we sell a full range of weekly and monthly tickets (issued as ordinary paper tickets from the ticket machine) onboard the bus with no photocard or id required. It is the same as buying a Single/Return/Day ticket
Most Arriva/First/Stagecoach services and many other bus operators all over the UK do exactly the same and sell weekly and monthly tickets onboard without any photocard or id required just like with Single/Return/Day tickets.
So if it is not required for buses then why do train companies insist on people having a photocard to buy weekly and monthly tickets? Is there any reason why train companies have this policy?
What do you all think? Is it time to allow passengers to purchase and use weekly and monthly season tickets without a photocard?
It just makes the weekly and monthly tickets so inconvenient as you have to get a photocard first and then you always have to remember to carry it with you when you travel. It would be so much more simple to able to just easily purchase a weekly or monthly ticket just like a Single/Return/Day ticket without having to worry about photocards or anything.
I work as a bus driver for small independent bus operator and we sell a full range of weekly and monthly tickets (issued as ordinary paper tickets from the ticket machine) onboard the bus with no photocard or id required. It is the same as buying a Single/Return/Day ticket
Most Arriva/First/Stagecoach services and many other bus operators all over the UK do exactly the same and sell weekly and monthly tickets onboard without any photocard or id required just like with Single/Return/Day tickets.
So if it is not required for buses then why do train companies insist on people having a photocard to buy weekly and monthly tickets? Is there any reason why train companies have this policy?
What do you all think? Is it time to allow passengers to purchase and use weekly and monthly season tickets without a photocard?