{"id":945,"date":"2010-09-21T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T08:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2010-09-21T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:19:34","slug":"ambitious-bus-ticket-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ambitious&#8217; bus ticket giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The UK&#8217;s biggest bus companies First Group, Arriva and Stagecoach are offering a free ride to passengers who board a bus instead of taking their car.<br \/>\nFirst Group chief executive Sir Moir Lockhead explains the environmental motivation of the initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/audio\/todayprog.mp3\" class=\"wpaudio\">Radio 4, Today Programme, 20 Sept 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not seen any other indications that Stagecoach, First or Arriva are giving tickets away so did a Google search using the term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB370GB370&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=first+stageocach+arriva+free+bus+tickets#sclient=psy&#038;hl=en&#038;rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB370GB370&#038;source=hp&#038;q=free+bus+tickets&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=&#038;aql=&#038;oq=&#038;gs_rfai=&#038;pbx=1&#038;fp=f5e115eac40b99f5\">free bus tickets<\/a> to find out more.  The top search result directed me toward free bus travel as a concession, that&#8217;s not what the story is about.  The second result looked more promising &#8220;FirstGroup Buses &#8211; Free Offer &#8211; Leave the car, take the bus for free for a week in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Chester, Greater Manchester, York, Sheffield, Leeds and Plymouth&#8221; pointed to the aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebusticket.co.uk\/\">www.freebusticket.co.uk<\/a>, I clicked on the link and read &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/offerclosed.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/offerclosed.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that was it!  The following links were all about concessionary fares, children under 5 going free, a free university link etc.  Nothing to support an &#8216;ambitious ticket giveaway&#8217;.  It&#8217;d be nice if Leon Daniels of FirstGroup, who publishes his <a href=\"http:\/\/leondaniels.blogspot.com\/\">own blog<\/a>, could expand how the free tickets can be obtained and how FirstGroup, Arriva and Stagecoach are collaborating on the distribution of free tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s biggest bus companies First Group, Arriva and Stagecoach are offering a free ride to passengers who board a bus instead of taking their car. First Group chief executive Sir Moir Lockhead explains the environmental motivation of the initiative. Radio 4, Today Programme, 20 Sept 2010 I&#8217;ve not seen any other indications that Stagecoach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}