Single Ticket
Last updated 2nd January 2012.
Single tickets are available which can be used to
bring friends home from school, travel occasionally in the afternoon
when you are a morning-only passenger, that sort of thing.
They cost £5 each, and are valid for one trip only. If you wanted
to use the bus in the morning and afternoon you would need two
tickets costing £10 in total.
Update, extracted from
letter sent to parents on 9th September 2011 (and updated 2nd
January 2012):
Dear Parents
This letter concerns the single-trip ticket policy for the
school year 2011/2012.
As you know our bus is just about full. There
are a few seats free between Headington/Rye schools and OHS. Other
than that, there is just one seat free in the
afternoons for travel to stops to Headington Quarry and beyond. I am
half expecting that seat to go as well but until it does, the
following seats are available for reserving for single trip tickets.
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Nothing in the mornings
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In the afternoons:
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Nothing
on Monday
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1 seat on Tuesday
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1 seat on Wednesday
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1 seat on Thursday
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1 seat on Friday
To use a seat, you will need
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To have in your
procession a single trip ticket (to be handed to the driver).
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Have reserved
the seat on the date you require with me – and received a
confirmation e-mail.
There is an extra afternoon
alternative for passengers at Headington and Rye St Antony schools.
If they want to bring home guests without pre-booking a seat, they
can take a chance on seats being free due to other passengers absent
on after school activities. To do this they would need to stand at
the Rye stop with their guests (and this includes the Headington
passengers who have guests). Then, after the regular Rye pupils have
boarded, if the driver confirms there are empty seats then the
guests can be taken on board. If there are no seats, the guests will
not be allowed on the bus. The guests will still need a single trip
ticket each.
Single trip tickets cost £5 and are available
only from me. The driver does not sell them, and my daughters do not
carry any either.
If you have an emergency (such as having to
look after another child because their parent is ill, for example)
and need an extra seat morning/afternoon then contact me. I’ll check
with all parents to see if any passenger is away on a field trip etc
to see if any seats are free which can be used.
I hope this is all clear. Things worked well
last year, but we have less spare seats now, and less room for
manoeuvre. Should this system fail, and the driver finds he has a
passenger with no seat, he will not drive on. With everyone’s
cooperation we can avoid that situation
occurring.
Thanks for your support.