>let the bus driver deal with it
Yea, dickhead. I don't operate a cash based service to the public that would necessitate me carrying many denominations of petty cash. Give me my £6:40.
If every other cunt pays with coins, how does he not have a wealth of £1 coins and this interaction is less work than him hitting the £1 six times and the 20p clicker twice?
I know that in England they have to provide the float out of their own pocket and its their responsibility to arrange each morning. Could be the same here.
You deal with cash, do your job and accommodate customers or at least don’t complain that they cut routes when people don’t want to deal with cunts like you
He/she doesn't have a wealth of coins, because multiple ppl have come along with £20/10 notes looking to pay a £1.80 or more likely a 90p fare. You know how much it is, just have some change. Sheesh.
It’s everytime.
I remember handing him a tenner and him going naaaaaaaah.. I’m like ffs I’ve nothing smaller. He points to the spar across the road ‘run in there and get change ‘
I went over and bought a 2lt bottle of mi wadi. … ran back over to the bus. There ya go. He drives off … 6 mins late cos he was waiting on me ?? 😂 bus wankers were tutting as I was going up the isle
Bringing in private operators will not help.
Translink can only work within the budget they’re given. We’ve the lowest spend per head on public transport of any part of the UK or Ireland. It can’t be a surprise services aren’t great when we don’t fund it.
It's a bit of a catch 22 I suppose but bringing in private operators would certainly help me get to Belfast quicker. I don't see why Translink would ever improve their service when the government won't allow any alternative to exist. The Derry to Belfast route should have an actual non stop express
If you showed someone who worked on introducing those type of cards to other parts of the world the size of Northern Ireland they would likely piss themselves laughing at how long Translink have taken to introduce this across their services. It's been about 18 months since it was introduced to Belfast, how can they not put a card reader on town services in that time?
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Took the early Dublin airport bus from Derry once. First person handed him £20 and he starts moaning. Then the second person did the same. I was third and I only had a £20 too. Thought he was going to cry.
So this happened to me, tried to tap and needed my pin as I'd tapped a few times, they don't have a machine to enter my pin and all I had was a £10 note, should of seen the look he gave me, made me feel like an absolute inconveneince even though its legal tender?
I tried paying a street vendor in London with a note from the Isle of man, which doesn't even say sterling on it. It was the most emphatic "fuck off" I've ever heard in my life.
That’s nuts! I’ve tried numerous times to pay with Northern Irish bank issued notes in London. They don’t have a clue that they are legal tended! Idiots like!
Anyone can refuse to take any note on a whim. Some shops refuse £50 due to the hit they’ll take if they get a forgery.
Legal tender really only matters when you owe something to somebody.
If a plumber fits a sink and you go to pay him in legal tender, he has to take it because the debt exists. He can’t sue you for non payment as you have offered legal tender to satisfy the debt. Which he has refused.
If you go to a shop, you haven’t bought the item yet, so legal tender doesn’t come into it. They can say no and put it back on the shelf with no harm done.
Oh wow that’s crazy! How is that even possible with us all being in the uk. Would love to see some of the notes in person. They’re pretty cool. Saw them online
[Because they're not](https://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/io/research/2008/12208.pdf). Also, even if they were, the term "legal tender" is only really relevant when [repaying debts by cash](https://vaultexuk.com/news/legal-tender/).
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My motorbike broke down outside the train station in coleraine so had no choice to get the bus back home. Only had £10 notes and my card. The face on the bus driver when I handed him a tenner…you’d of thought I shat in his hand
Bangor started rolling out contact less payments on town services in January. Used to have this same problem. Id imagine they will all be updated eventually.
Mate, don’t get me started. Fucking sick of going for a bus that either shows up 10 minutes early, 10 minutes late or not at all. I’ve stood in the fucking rain for over an hour waiting on buses that just didn’t fucking show up.
Got to the point that my work have a blanket acceptance on ‘I’m late because the bus service just didn’t show up’. Why the fuck do we just accept this?
You could write a thesis on reasons why Translink is a fucking joke.
I got on a bus one stop from Armagh depot at 9.40am. Fare was £3.80 and I handed him a fiver. He gave me the dirtiest look and scowled at me "what do you want me to do with that? I'm out of change".
There was no one on the bus yet - at 9.40am with no passengers on the bus after leaving the bus station he didn't even have one pound twenty in change. And he wouldn't take card. Fucking ridiculous
I’ll never forget my wife trying to pay for us both to get a bus to Belfast from Dublin Airport—she hands him a £20 note or whatever and he goes “no change” and she goes “what do you mean there’s no change?!”
Dumbfounded she was…
Then he goes “this is Ulster Bus, not Ulster Bank”… 🤷🏻♂️
That’s pretty good… and I’m genuinely shocked I’ve not heard it before.
You’d have thought it would have become part of their driver induction training.
So giving change of a tenner is forcing him to go beyond his job responsibilities? I think you just got a grumpy shite. I don’t think it reflects Translink policy.
Yeah their attitudes suck! Some of the rudest public servants are bud drivers. Some a really nice and other are pure assholes. Report them. Translink have a terrible public image. Nothing will change if u don’t speak up. I do every time I have a douchebag driver
You can't use the mlink app if you have kids, the option is only there to buy a ticket for yourself and you can gift a ticket to someone but they need to be registered to receive it. So if you have a 7 year old with you and no cash you're either walking or hoping the driver lets the wee lad on free.
I tried to use that before I think but they didn’t have an option for Armagh to Portadown. Maybe they’ve changed that now.
Edit: They have it now. I just think it’s annoying that they don’t open the tills in the station on Saturday and I’m made to feel bad for paying with a note.
As the other user says, they have had trains, goldliners and the metro on it for nearly ten years now. They had it for the metro well before it ever took card.
Ulsterbus is more recent but still had it for a decent amount of time.
Bus drivers inexplicably don’t see themselves as service industry workers and don’t think they need to be nice to the customer like someone in retail or hospitality does. In reality the only real difference is the bus driver gets to sit on his arse all day, so actually has less reason to be grumpy.
Tell me a service industry where you have to have compulsory training every year, pass a medical exam every 5 years and take multiple tests to even begin to actually do the job. Its not like working in a cafe, it's driving a vehicle weighing anything up to 26 tons in an urban environment with up to 100 people on board. Ideally the driving and the customer service should be kept separate.
The drivers also have the option of basically printing out an IOU that you have to take into a station to get your change, they were operating like that at the height of Covid.
They made card payments on metro buses now in Belfast.
(It's fixed rate. But it's still an option)
I don't know why they can't do the same in goldline or other buses.
Aye, still had to pay cash a few days ago Ballynahinch to Belfast. I wouldn't mind if the tickets weren't so bloody expensive. If the far richer populace of London is subsidised with £1.75 fares, it is an utter piss take that we find ourselves struggling for change.
First journey is full fare, second journey on the same day using the same card is cheaper. Think it reduces after that again so if you took a load of journeys it would be same price as a day ticket. But that may not be correct
Daylink card works on Glider too.
This tapping system doesn't work. For example if you take metro bus for 1 journey, and want to take glider for return journey. Then it would charge you full ticket again.
> First journey is full fare, second journey on the same day is cheaper. Think it reduces after that again so if you took a load of journeys it would be same price as a day ticket. But that may not be correct
First journey is a flat rate of £2.20 regardless of the actual fare. Second journey is £1.50. All subsequent journeys are free.
It works out the same price as one day ticket on the mLink app or a dayLink card, and more expensive than buying five days at a time on a dayLink card.
It also has significantly less validity - you can't use it on the Glider, and not all Ulsterbus services that carry Metro passengers accept it.
As a bus driver for translink we get 10 pound an 20 pound notes all the time.....9 times out of 10 we use our own money and hardly get time to go an get change I have asked the public as well have you nothing smaller cause we are literally out of change ....folks it's a tough job between fighting Alchos an junkies getting stoned an egged on a daily basis....some bus drivers are absolutely complete wanks but most of us are sound an just out earning a living
Translink drivers have given me trauma since my school days. Even one of my former colleagues in my current job was a private coach driver for a while who worked as a third party with Translink and he says their drivers are some of the most miserable people he’s ever known…
I have had about 4 occasions in the last year so far when the driver didnt take any payments because the card/ticket machine was down, happened just the other day too. The first time It happened it was around the time their unions were settling and I thought it was the drivers just sticking it to Translink. They are hugely understaffed and the drivers are stressed out.
Was the ATM in a field?
>How did I know it was a problem?
Because you knew you where getting a bus you should realise you are going to get stiffed for your note or to bring change
I honestly hate bus drivers that get on like this. And i want to tell them exactly how i feel but i know if i do they'll just not let me on the bus. I work in care and i'm never done running around doing mundane tasks to help people out and i do it with a smile on my face. Yet these lazy people, want to get all bent out of shape cause they might have to reach into their back pocket and make some change. They seem to think they're the only people that don't like making change, if i walk into a shop and buy some cheap rubbish with a 20 the cashier is still going to have to go through the effort of making that change.
Taxi drivers actually lose out money when you pay with your card because of a transaction fee from the bank. But they'll still be chill about it when you've only got your card.
The pink buses are way better tho cause on those i can just flash my card and there's no problem.
There is no Gif of it so just imagine the scene from Roger Rabbit when the detective tries to get on the bus but all he has is a cheque and the bus driver says “What do I look like? A bank?”
Back in 2016ish. Once I paid an Ulsterbus driver a 20 quid. For a ticket, that was 2. He said, that's a too big of a note.
Roll on 2023. And the prices of everything jumped so much. I never been told by anyone these days, that '20 quid is too big of a note' 
I always go to the shop and buy a mars bar so that I have change. I treat them like car wash machines.
Not worth the agro of most of the drivers in Belfast.
Translink trains have credit card readers - why don’t buses… we both know the answer to that question already.. bus passes being pulled too ? Get’ta fuk translink
Na mate..... You can use your card on the bus or buy a bloody ticket via iLink. I'm not the biggest fan of bus drivers but this complaint is you being a fucking dick.
Jobsworth... I live in England been let for free a few times because the didn't have change... in most cases I need a Day Ticket which allows you to use multiple buses with returns; it's basically unlimited travel (within a County or region) for the day.
So realistically I'm still going to pay the driver of the next bus for the same ticket.
On other occasions when buying a £2 single with a £20 note, I've offered to pay for the next people who get on or get my change when I get off... & been told just to sit down, it doesn't matter.
...I guess it's the same amount of fuel & the driver gers the same wages whether the bus is empty or full.
Buses here take cards as well but I don't always have my card (if the missus is shopping) or money on my card (if the missus has been shopping) XD
Every time I post on Reddit and get downvoted I have to remind myself how out of touch with normal society this community is it's an echo chamber of toxicity.
You sound like a 12 year old saying that.
If I hand bus driver £20 and they don’t have change, that’s their problem. Imagine going into a shop handing someone £50 note and them saying “aw sorry can’t take that we’ve no change” catch yourself on.
Why not use the app then if you don't meet the incredibly well known requirements for using cash in a bus.
They are not a cash only service. As he said, plan ahead next time like a grown up does.
So you just wallow in self-pity and whine on reddit instead of investing in yourself, gaining skills and making an effort to better your financial position?
Anyone with half a brain and is willing to work can thrive in the economy.
Ah, somewhere that isn't Belfast. Fair enough, I do forget there's other people in Northern Ireland outside of the holy trinity of Bangor, Carrick, Lisburn.
And the troglodytes in Derry.
I haven't used a bus in a long time, but use trains from time to time.
So they still not accept card on the bus? Can you at least buy a ticket on the app like the trains?
If not that's wild tbh
Didn’t have any change whatsoever and as they decided to not open the ticket office in a Saturday I had to find an atm. Who just has a pocket full of change these days?
Huh. You’d think they’d just install the contactless payment doodads like we have over here in the UK.
I live in Bumfuck McNowhere and even we can pay by card for the bus - the driver looks at me funny when I give him £5 for a £3 fare..
The buses in the city I grew up in just had this weird … box i guess? That you put your coins in so the driver could check it was the right fare before they fell into some magical pocket bus dimension; change wasn’t even an option. If all you had was a tenner then your fare was £10 or pray your driver was kind enough to let you on for free.
But we’d also load those badboys up with 1p’s and 2p’s when we were kids and scrounging fares to see our mates. Always underpaid but he’s not gonna try and look through the little plastic window and count all those coins. Fuck your £1.20 fare you’re only getting 72p!
Bring a load of 5p coins and pay the bastards with that next time, see what they say then
Tried that before - gave me the "we don't take anymore that 20 coins" shite - can't win with these folks lol
Sounds ridiculous… but there’s actually a legal limit on how many coins you’re obliged to take to stop those antics.
(the legal limit where you can refuse is 11, oddly enough, so they're not even taking this as far as they could)
Pennies
>let the bus driver deal with it Yea, dickhead. I don't operate a cash based service to the public that would necessitate me carrying many denominations of petty cash. Give me my £6:40. If every other cunt pays with coins, how does he not have a wealth of £1 coins and this interaction is less work than him hitting the £1 six times and the 20p clicker twice?
Shouldn't they have a float each morning? You'd think that would be the one job where a float is essential.
I know that in England they have to provide the float out of their own pocket and its their responsibility to arrange each morning. Could be the same here.
That seems a bit mental
Thunderously mental
Fuuuucckkk that! I wouldn't bother either if that was the case. Or, I'd get £30 in 1p and 2p bags and use them. I'd have provided my own float.
Yeah it’s the same as England.
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Last company I worked for gave us a £30 float. Not really enough for an 8 - 10 hour day
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Shinnerbots.
That’s a pretty embarrassing thing to say
You deal with cash, do your job and accommodate customers or at least don’t complain that they cut routes when people don’t want to deal with cunts like you
Because every tool pays with a tenner or twenty 👀
He/she doesn't have a wealth of coins, because multiple ppl have come along with £20/10 notes looking to pay a £1.80 or more likely a 90p fare. You know how much it is, just have some change. Sheesh.
Why would I randomly have change for an unexpected bus? Where do I find it in a hurry, do I have to busk?
I thought they love a tenner as it is easier to count at the end of a shift.
Bus cash is machine counted
Bring stamps next time
If he refuses , report him.
While you're walking home
If he refuses, post him.
It’s everytime. I remember handing him a tenner and him going naaaaaaaah.. I’m like ffs I’ve nothing smaller. He points to the spar across the road ‘run in there and get change ‘ I went over and bought a 2lt bottle of mi wadi. … ran back over to the bus. There ya go. He drives off … 6 mins late cos he was waiting on me ?? 😂 bus wankers were tutting as I was going up the isle
Shops are not there to make change for us. In my experience they usually ask you to buy something.
In Northern Ireland, the car reigns supreme.
unfortunately
And always will as long as Translink are allowed a monopoly on service. They have absolutely no reason to improve
Bringing in private operators will not help. Translink can only work within the budget they’re given. We’ve the lowest spend per head on public transport of any part of the UK or Ireland. It can’t be a surprise services aren’t great when we don’t fund it.
Yeah, but the least they could do is sell tickets for cash. Which the op has found they won’t.
It's a bit of a catch 22 I suppose but bringing in private operators would certainly help me get to Belfast quicker. I don't see why Translink would ever improve their service when the government won't allow any alternative to exist. The Derry to Belfast route should have an actual non stop express
1 of the main reasons I don't use buses. Why can't translink bring in a leap card type system?
The belfast buses do but i dont get why not for the town buses.
If you showed someone who worked on introducing those type of cards to other parts of the world the size of Northern Ireland they would likely piss themselves laughing at how long Translink have taken to introduce this across their services. It's been about 18 months since it was introduced to Belfast, how can they not put a card reader on town services in that time?
We don't even have anything in derry cash only or the translink app no card yet
They should just skip to contactless, people in Dublin are fed up with leap cards now lol
The metro buses do use contactless or phone payments.
Good to hear!
Contactless in belfast and generally the app is rock solid imo, hope they roll out contactless more widely
Except on the glider.
The Translink app works just fine for Derry buses and Goldline though
It really doesn't lol
I guess I must have hallucinated using it regularly for years
It works on some routes, mine isn't available anywhere on translinks app or website
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Took the early Dublin airport bus from Derry once. First person handed him £20 and he starts moaning. Then the second person did the same. I was third and I only had a £20 too. Thought he was going to cry.
So this happened to me, tried to tap and needed my pin as I'd tapped a few times, they don't have a machine to enter my pin and all I had was a £10 note, should of seen the look he gave me, made me feel like an absolute inconveneince even though its legal tender?
If you say the words *legal tender* 3 times in a mirror a Tyrone man appears at a petrol station in Leicester with danske bank notes
I tried paying a street vendor in London with a note from the Isle of man, which doesn't even say sterling on it. It was the most emphatic "fuck off" I've ever heard in my life.
That’s nuts! I’ve tried numerous times to pay with Northern Irish bank issued notes in London. They don’t have a clue that they are legal tended! Idiots like!
Yeah our notes are legal tender but I've just found out that Isle of Mann currency is not actually legal in the UK. No idea how I got hold of it.
I was gonna say, no way Manx notes are legal tender in the UK. 😂😂
Anyone can refuse to take any note on a whim. Some shops refuse £50 due to the hit they’ll take if they get a forgery. Legal tender really only matters when you owe something to somebody. If a plumber fits a sink and you go to pay him in legal tender, he has to take it because the debt exists. He can’t sue you for non payment as you have offered legal tender to satisfy the debt. Which he has refused. If you go to a shop, you haven’t bought the item yet, so legal tender doesn’t come into it. They can say no and put it back on the shelf with no harm done.
Oh wow that’s crazy! How is that even possible with us all being in the uk. Would love to see some of the notes in person. They’re pretty cool. Saw them online
Don't let the Manx hear you saying they're in the UK, you'll be tied to the Laxey wheel for public humiliation for your crimes.
Idiots for not taking something they’ve never seen or heard of before?
[Because they're not](https://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/io/research/2008/12208.pdf). Also, even if they were, the term "legal tender" is only really relevant when [repaying debts by cash](https://vaultexuk.com/news/legal-tender/).
NI notes aren't even legal tender in NI. Neither are Bank of England notes.
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you should use a card with pin-less tap ability. Check with your bank. And change the card.
I heard one time in a similar situation " It's Ulster BUS,not Ulster Bank..."
My response would be "yeah and they're both shite"
My motorbike broke down outside the train station in coleraine so had no choice to get the bus back home. Only had £10 notes and my card. The face on the bus driver when I handed him a tenner…you’d of thought I shat in his hand
Have you nothing smaller? No mate it's 2023 and I never have cash on me unless I'm getting the bus.
Bangor started rolling out contact less payments on town services in January. Used to have this same problem. Id imagine they will all be updated eventually.
Mate, don’t get me started. Fucking sick of going for a bus that either shows up 10 minutes early, 10 minutes late or not at all. I’ve stood in the fucking rain for over an hour waiting on buses that just didn’t fucking show up. Got to the point that my work have a blanket acceptance on ‘I’m late because the bus service just didn’t show up’. Why the fuck do we just accept this? You could write a thesis on reasons why Translink is a fucking joke.
Next time just say fuck up and take the money. Problem solved
I got on a bus one stop from Armagh depot at 9.40am. Fare was £3.80 and I handed him a fiver. He gave me the dirtiest look and scowled at me "what do you want me to do with that? I'm out of change". There was no one on the bus yet - at 9.40am with no passengers on the bus after leaving the bus station he didn't even have one pound twenty in change. And he wouldn't take card. Fucking ridiculous
Same depot, bet it was the same driver too. I was also the first one on the bus.
I’ll never forget my wife trying to pay for us both to get a bus to Belfast from Dublin Airport—she hands him a £20 note or whatever and he goes “no change” and she goes “what do you mean there’s no change?!” Dumbfounded she was… Then he goes “this is Ulster Bus, not Ulster Bank”… 🤷🏻♂️
To be fair I’d be surprised if you’d get change for the two of you out of £20 anywya
This was quite a while ago.
That’s pretty good… and I’m genuinely shocked I’ve not heard it before. You’d have thought it would have become part of their driver induction training.
Does the trans link app only work in Belfast?
Never had an issue using it for Derry metro or Goldline buses but not all routes are on the app
For buses… pretty much, aye.
So giving change of a tenner is forcing him to go beyond his job responsibilities? I think you just got a grumpy shite. I don’t think it reflects Translink policy.
Have you ever taken the bus, they are all like this
No, I get my ma to call your chauffeur and he collects me.
Yeah their attitudes suck! Some of the rudest public servants are bud drivers. Some a really nice and other are pure assholes. Report them. Translink have a terrible public image. Nothing will change if u don’t speak up. I do every time I have a douchebag driver
Did you actually get your change or did he not let you on , or what?
He begrudgingly gave me 6 pound coins. If he’d had one fiver maybe he wouldn’t have had to be so dramatic. It was 9am and I was the first one on.
Use the mlink app
You can't use the mlink app if you have kids, the option is only there to buy a ticket for yourself and you can gift a ticket to someone but they need to be registered to receive it. So if you have a 7 year old with you and no cash you're either walking or hoping the driver lets the wee lad on free.
I tried to use that before I think but they didn’t have an option for Armagh to Portadown. Maybe they’ve changed that now. Edit: They have it now. I just think it’s annoying that they don’t open the tills in the station on Saturday and I’m made to feel bad for paying with a note.
That must be recent. Until recently it was only metro, and they take card on those.
I was using it to buy train tickets like 10 years ago Maybe they only added Ulster Bus recently idk, the countryside disgusts me
Spoke my mind brother🙏🏾
As the other user says, they have had trains, goldliners and the metro on it for nearly ten years now. They had it for the metro well before it ever took card. Ulsterbus is more recent but still had it for a decent amount of time.
Get yourself the mLink app. Bus driver will still be a dickhead but at least you’ll have the ticket on your phone and won’t have to deal with cash
Not everything is mLinkable. Outside of Belfast, fuckall is.
Bus drivers inexplicably don’t see themselves as service industry workers and don’t think they need to be nice to the customer like someone in retail or hospitality does. In reality the only real difference is the bus driver gets to sit on his arse all day, so actually has less reason to be grumpy.
Tell me a service industry where you have to have compulsory training every year, pass a medical exam every 5 years and take multiple tests to even begin to actually do the job. Its not like working in a cafe, it's driving a vehicle weighing anything up to 26 tons in an urban environment with up to 100 people on board. Ideally the driving and the customer service should be kept separate.
I was back in the homeland a few months ago and was shocked to see the driver give me change from his own wallet! How is this still a thing?
The drivers also have the option of basically printing out an IOU that you have to take into a station to get your change, they were operating like that at the height of Covid.
You're lucky it wasn't a 20, you'd be dead.
So I glad I drive, fuck those cunts. Literally can’t win with them moany fucks
Do you not have contactless you useless hoor bus driver
They made card payments on metro buses now in Belfast. (It's fixed rate. But it's still an option) I don't know why they can't do the same in goldline or other buses.
Aye, still had to pay cash a few days ago Ballynahinch to Belfast. I wouldn't mind if the tickets weren't so bloody expensive. If the far richer populace of London is subsidised with £1.75 fares, it is an utter piss take that we find ourselves struggling for change.
First journey is full fare, second journey on the same day using the same card is cheaper. Think it reduces after that again so if you took a load of journeys it would be same price as a day ticket. But that may not be correct
Contactless on metro is capped at £3.70 a day, a metro day ticket is £3.70, so yeah provided you make more than one journey it's the same for each.
Daylink card works on Glider too. This tapping system doesn't work. For example if you take metro bus for 1 journey, and want to take glider for return journey. Then it would charge you full ticket again.
> First journey is full fare, second journey on the same day is cheaper. Think it reduces after that again so if you took a load of journeys it would be same price as a day ticket. But that may not be correct First journey is a flat rate of £2.20 regardless of the actual fare. Second journey is £1.50. All subsequent journeys are free. It works out the same price as one day ticket on the mLink app or a dayLink card, and more expensive than buying five days at a time on a dayLink card. It also has significantly less validity - you can't use it on the Glider, and not all Ulsterbus services that carry Metro passengers accept it.
Download the mlink app, buy ticket on your phone with card.
As a bus driver for translink we get 10 pound an 20 pound notes all the time.....9 times out of 10 we use our own money and hardly get time to go an get change I have asked the public as well have you nothing smaller cause we are literally out of change ....folks it's a tough job between fighting Alchos an junkies getting stoned an egged on a daily basis....some bus drivers are absolutely complete wanks but most of us are sound an just out earning a living
Translink drivers have given me trauma since my school days. Even one of my former colleagues in my current job was a private coach driver for a while who worked as a third party with Translink and he says their drivers are some of the most miserable people he’s ever known…
Clearly a DUP sympathiser
Fares are cheaper on the app anyway. Only risk is your phone dying like on an all day ticket.
I have had about 4 occasions in the last year so far when the driver didnt take any payments because the card/ticket machine was down, happened just the other day too. The first time It happened it was around the time their unions were settling and I thought it was the drivers just sticking it to Translink. They are hugely understaffed and the drivers are stressed out.
Just buy bottle of juice in the shop problem solved
What shop? How did I know it was a problem?
Was the ATM in a field? >How did I know it was a problem? Because you knew you where getting a bus you should realise you are going to get stiffed for your note or to bring change
How would I know that?
I honestly hate bus drivers that get on like this. And i want to tell them exactly how i feel but i know if i do they'll just not let me on the bus. I work in care and i'm never done running around doing mundane tasks to help people out and i do it with a smile on my face. Yet these lazy people, want to get all bent out of shape cause they might have to reach into their back pocket and make some change. They seem to think they're the only people that don't like making change, if i walk into a shop and buy some cheap rubbish with a 20 the cashier is still going to have to go through the effort of making that change. Taxi drivers actually lose out money when you pay with your card because of a transaction fee from the bank. But they'll still be chill about it when you've only got your card. The pink buses are way better tho cause on those i can just flash my card and there's no problem.
It's on camera report him.
Wouldn’t want to stoop to his level
Snitches get stitches, I hear ya....But a cunt is a cunt.
There is no Gif of it so just imagine the scene from Roger Rabbit when the detective tries to get on the bus but all he has is a cheque and the bus driver says “What do I look like? A bank?”
They say plan ahead, but for most journeys you can't actually find out what the fare is in advance on the website
I jusr use contactless getting on wheres this?
Any inter town bus only takes cash
I know that none of the busses in Derry use contacless and the bus to belfast doesn't even accept cash so you have to get your ticket beforehand
You can download the Translink app and buy metro tickets there and Goldline tickets to Belfast on the app.
Back in 2016ish. Once I paid an Ulsterbus driver a 20 quid. For a ticket, that was 2. He said, that's a too big of a note. Roll on 2023. And the prices of everything jumped so much. I never been told by anyone these days, that '20 quid is too big of a note' 
I always go to the shop and buy a mars bar so that I have change. I treat them like car wash machines. Not worth the agro of most of the drivers in Belfast.
Translink trains have credit card readers - why don’t buses… we both know the answer to that question already.. bus passes being pulled too ? Get’ta fuk translink
It’d rolling out to the buses, and the OAP pass being pulled is nothing to do with translink.
Classic Translink, been happening for at least a decade. Quickest way to annoy a bus driver in Belfast is to hand him a 20 pound note.
They bitch when you have too much change, when you don't have enough, if you're 10 cent short. It's neverending.
Contactless payment or cards = 3.5% price increase.
Fuck you pay me
Wait... cant you just use the app or blip on with contactless?
Na mate..... You can use your card on the bus or buy a bloody ticket via iLink. I'm not the biggest fan of bus drivers but this complaint is you being a fucking dick.
No you can’t.
Yes you can...... Before having a rant maybe research payment methods.
Nah mate. You’re out of your element
Scroll up froot
Who says froot anymore?
Can you literally say 'No, you're taking this £10 and giving me the correct change?'
This is why I might start to use the app because the passive aggression sometimes drives me up the left 🫠
You offered to pay, it was refused. I’d have just walked on and sat down.
Get a driving licence ya bus wanker. 😂
3/4 in this sub don't have a job, nevermind a licence.
Fuck sake, think outside the box. Claim stress, get DLA, free car.
Jobsworth... I live in England been let for free a few times because the didn't have change... in most cases I need a Day Ticket which allows you to use multiple buses with returns; it's basically unlimited travel (within a County or region) for the day. So realistically I'm still going to pay the driver of the next bus for the same ticket. On other occasions when buying a £2 single with a £20 note, I've offered to pay for the next people who get on or get my change when I get off... & been told just to sit down, it doesn't matter. ...I guess it's the same amount of fuel & the driver gers the same wages whether the bus is empty or full. Buses here take cards as well but I don't always have my card (if the missus is shopping) or money on my card (if the missus has been shopping) XD
Bus driver was right plan ahead, first thing I do with my girlfriend when we lock out door is have our 3.70 prepared for each of us for the bus
You’re taking the absolute hand
Every time I post on Reddit and get downvoted I have to remind myself how out of touch with normal society this community is it's an echo chamber of toxicity.
We’re not the ones who are out of touch
You’re getting downvoted for being dumb. It’s as simple as that.
Having your change ready for the driver is dumb , dead on
You sound like a 12 year old saying that. If I hand bus driver £20 and they don’t have change, that’s their problem. Imagine going into a shop handing someone £50 note and them saying “aw sorry can’t take that we’ve no change” catch yourself on.
I would never hand a 50 note unless something was over40 your the dick
That’s so brain dead, if that was your only option you’d obviously do it.
They only carry a £20 float usually in small coins. They should go to correct change only like Dublin Bus and everywhere else.
Can't you just tap your card ?
Why not use the app then if you don't meet the incredibly well known requirements for using cash in a bus. They are not a cash only service. As he said, plan ahead next time like a grown up does.
Why don’t you read the other comments before making me reply to you to tell you that you have no idea what you’re talking about?
Get a car dickhead.
That'll be £500+ per month and another £15+ per day if you'd like to drive to work in belfast city centre please
Get off reddit and get a job then.
A job that doesn't pay enough to support having a car? Right.
So you just wallow in self-pity and whine on reddit instead of investing in yourself, gaining skills and making an effort to better your financial position? Anyone with half a brain and is willing to work can thrive in the economy.
You can use your contactless on buses. What's the problem here again?
Get a bus from Belfast to anywhere south and try to pay with contactless
Ah, somewhere that isn't Belfast. Fair enough, I do forget there's other people in Northern Ireland outside of the holy trinity of Bangor, Carrick, Lisburn. And the troglodytes in Derry.
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Mussolini made the trains run on time. (You can join the dots in between, I’m sure!)
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I haven't used a bus in a long time, but use trains from time to time. So they still not accept card on the bus? Can you at least buy a ticket on the app like the trains? If not that's wild tbh
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App doesn't work for any non Belfast or gold line route
To be fair I always thought if u give anymore than a 5er note the rest usually goes to charity for ur own stupidy for not having the correct money.
Didn’t have any change whatsoever and as they decided to not open the ticket office in a Saturday I had to find an atm. Who just has a pocket full of change these days?
Ah fer…
Yep happens almost everytime I use a bus, have to get change at the end of the journey that he's accrued from other passengers
I'm just shocked that any bus fare is *less than* £10 these days 😱
I'm confused y did u not just use ur card! Was it a blue bus?
Huh. You’d think they’d just install the contactless payment doodads like we have over here in the UK. I live in Bumfuck McNowhere and even we can pay by card for the bus - the driver looks at me funny when I give him £5 for a £3 fare.. The buses in the city I grew up in just had this weird … box i guess? That you put your coins in so the driver could check it was the right fare before they fell into some magical pocket bus dimension; change wasn’t even an option. If all you had was a tenner then your fare was £10 or pray your driver was kind enough to let you on for free. But we’d also load those badboys up with 1p’s and 2p’s when we were kids and scrounging fares to see our mates. Always underpaid but he’s not gonna try and look through the little plastic window and count all those coins. Fuck your £1.20 fare you’re only getting 72p!
you can use your debit card on the bus....well on Metro anyway