{"id":1451,"date":"2011-12-02T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:18:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:18:39","slug":"stuffed-for-christmas-by-firstbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/1451","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed for Christmas by FirstBus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Throughout November and December we are replacing our current ticket and MCV machines with new smart card enabled machines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstgroup.com\/ukbus\/bristol_bath\/travel_news\/news_initiatives\/?item=3741\" title=\"FirstGroup News\" target=\"_blank\">FirstBus<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Actually&mdash;no! You are introducing new &#8220;Dumb cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The old ones were open season tickets which were validated on first use and then available for 7 or 31 days. I buy a wad of them when they are on discount and use them as needed. The new ones have a start and end date on them when purchased so you have to know in advance when you are going to want them. No late booking of holidays then else lose a chunk of your season ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these are only interim tickets read by eye-of-driver as the full network of machines won&#8217;t be installed and operational until April (according to the Council) then real smart tickets become available, but I wonder just how smart they will be and in whose favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout November and December we are replacing our current ticket and MCV machines with new smart card enabled machines. FirstBus Actually&mdash;no! You are introducing new &#8220;Dumb cards.&#8221; The old ones were open season tickets which were validated on first use and then available for 7 or 31 days. I buy a wad of them when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}