Wolverhampton reaction to rail fares going up

Wolverhampton train station. Reaction to rail fares going up.

Transcript

00:00 Hi everyone it's Lauren from The Expression Star I'm outside Wolverhampton

00:03 train station today talking to passengers about the rail fare increase

00:07 I'm here with journalism students at Wolverhampton University Holly and

00:10 Caitlin. Holly gets the train quite often so Holly there has been an increase in

00:16 train fares by almost 5% so you get the train quite often don't you? Have you

00:21 noticed that it's a bit more expensive? Honestly it actually shocked me because I

00:24 messaged my friend and I was like has it gone up for you and he was like oh it's gone up by

00:27 50p but for me it's gone down by 30p. I don't know if it's because I've got a

00:32 rail card or anything but I went on and I was like oh it's cheaper it wasn't

00:36 anything I expected to be fair. So you haven't really experienced it? No. Okay I mean so for

00:41 those your friend did you say he's seen a higher increase? Yeah it's gone up by 50p for him.

00:45 50p and to be fair that's quite a significant amount so I mean how do you think this

00:50 kind of affects other people I mean especially your friend I'm guessing

00:54 they're quite young as well? No they're actually older. So I mean how do they feel about it?

00:59 They haven't got a rail card obviously because it's the 16-25 bracket and they have

01:04 noticed that it does add quite a lot on to every journey and over the course of

01:08 the month because one of my other friends he has a... what's the word?

01:13 I can't think of it. Yeah he has one of those cards that you pay at the beginning of the month and I was always like that

01:19 doesn't work out better because you're only in three days a week like it

01:23 doesn't actually work out very much but I think now that it's gone up it's

01:27 definitely gonna save him money so it could be something to look into in the

01:30 future. Yeah good and is this gonna you know you said you've got a rail card but if your train

01:37 prices do go up do you think you'll be looking at other ways to get around or

01:41 do you think you're just gonna have to like live with it? No no it's alright. If it goes up

01:46 any more I will probably drive in. So I'd do like half the way drive because it just

01:50 saves on fuel and everything but if it goes up any more I think it will be at

01:53 the point it's cheaper to drive. Yeah thank you guys so much that was brilliant

01:58 so let's get a little picky.

02:03 So yeah, you know guys, we're like, we're...