Bus company Arriva has announced some changes to its fares from Sunday, April 2. The provider, which runs most city buses in the East Midlands, advised customers of the news on Monday, March 27.
The changes affect three tickets, all of which are multi-journey - the Derby Zone, the X38 and the Derby Zone Plus. One-day, weekly, monthly, three-day, 12-day and annual ticket prices will all go up.
Single and return fares will not be affected. Currently, single-journey tickets are capped at £2 for most journeys across the UK as part of a Government scheme which came in on January 1. Usually it would cost £1.90 for a single fare and £3.60 for a return in Zones A and B, or £2.60 and £4.30 for a single or day ticket for travel within both zones.
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Arriva changed the way their fares work in April last year to a system which replicates Tube travel in London. Instead of individual journeys being priced accordingly, the new "simplified" system sees any journey within certain "zones" cost a round figure.
Derby is split into Zone A and Zone B. Zone A stretches as far as Pride Park and the Wyvern on the east side, Harvey Road and Osmaston Park Road in the south, Manor Road and Warwick Avenue up to Kingsway in the west and the northern boundary of the inner ring road in the north.
Zone B covers the rest of Derby, stretching to the city's boundary while missing out parts of Mickleover. People travelling just within Zone A pay a certain price, and those travelling just within Zone B pay the same.
To travel across both zones, known collectively as the Derby Zone, tickets are more expensive. "Multi-journey" tickets, which come in the form of one-day, weekly, monthly, three-day, 12-day and annual tickets, are only offered for the Derby Zone in general, rather than Zones A and B individually.
It is these which are affected by the price changes.
Derby Zone (Zones A and B included)
Derby Zone tickets will increase by 40p for an adult day pass, from £4.60 to £5, and a child ticket (ages 5 to 15) will rise to £4 from £3.60. A duo ticket, for two people, is increasing by £1 from £8.50 to £9.50, as is a family day ticket, from £10 to £11.
Weekly tickets are also rising in price, from £16.50 to £18.50 for adults and from £12.50 to £14 for children. For monthly (4-week) tickets, adult tickets will cost £64, a £6 increase on the previous price, and child tickets £56, up by £6 also, from £50.
An adult three-day ticket is increasing by £1.50 to £14, a 12-day is increasing by £5 to £52, and an annual is increasing by £60 to £640.
X38
The X38, from Derby to Burton, is also being affected. A day ticket for adults will be 60p more, rising from £5.70 to £6.30. An adult week ticket will be £25, up from £22.50, and an adult four-week ticket will now cost £79 rather than the previous price of £72.
For children, day tickets will now cost £3.60 (up from £3.20), a week ticket will cost £16.50 (up from £15) and a four-week ticket will cost £51 rather than £46.50.
Zone Plus
The Zone Plus ticket covers travel within Zones A and B of Derby but also stretches to South Derbyshire and Leicestershire, including Burton, Nuneaton, Loughborough, Castle Donington, Leicester itself and Rugby.
The Derby Zone Plus ticket will increase by 60p for an adult day, from £6.20 to £6.80. A student day ticket will not be affected, but a child day ticket will increase from £4.60 to £5.10 (a 50p hike) and a family day is rising by £1, from £12 to £13. An adult duo will go from £11 to £12.10, an increase of £1.10.
For weekly tickets, the adult price will now be £26, up from £23.50, and a child's weekly ticket will be £18, up from £16. Student weekly tickets will be unaffected.
Monthly (four-week) adult tickets are increasing from £80 to £88 and the child four-weekly from £64 to £71. And adult three-day and annuals will also be affected, increasing from £16 to £18, and £800 to £880, respectively.
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