In message , Apellation
Controlee writes
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:06:57 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
The trouble is it's all too easy to base the cost on the number of
passenger journeys those with passes make.

That "cost" is what the LAs have to pay to the bus companies.

I was interested in the *actual* cost - not some statistic plucked from
the air.

Unless you think the LA pays for every bus ticket individually.

They do in this area - You "buy" a zero-value ticket for each journey
and the pass card is read by a contact sensor on the ticket machine.
So they do here, but they still pay on basis of average adult fare per
journey.
Does the driver actually put in your destination?
--
bert