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To: Jim McFarlane, Chairman & Interim General Manager, Lothian Buses
Lothian Buses to continue to accept Adult City Single Tickets
To continue to sell and accept Adult City Single Tickets beyond 30th April 2016 .
Why is this important?
Services working with vulnerable people hand out single bus tickets to enable people to get to health appointments and to meet with other vital services. The decision to stop accepting Adult City Single Tickets restricts the ability for services to offer such provision.
Users of food banks have been particularly impacted by the decision. Foodbanks use these single tickets to issue to clients who have walked quite a distance to receive 12-25kgs of food to carry home. When previous client stated ‘When I accessed a foodbank in the intervening time between losing my house and going to a homeless hostel I went to the foodbank on Madeira Street and they gave me a bus ticket to get back to Lothian Road, which was as you can imagine a massive help!’.
Alternative ticketing systems that Lothian Buses could consider are listed below:
• Adult City Single Scratchcards are less likely to be counterfeited.
• Using two prepaid child tickets to allow an adult to board a bus (no plans as yet to cease the sale of books of child singles)
• Single journey citysmart cards with only one journey loaded on them
• Day saver scratch cards solds to charities for £1.60 each
• Annual donations of scratch cards to charities that are existing customers of Lothian Buses as part of LB’s corporate social responsibility
