How we check fares

Every figure is checked against the operator

Prices here are taken from the transport operator’s own published fares, not from other travel sites, aggregators or press coverage. Every system page links directly to the operator’s fares page so you can confirm any figure yourself in one click, and every page tells you to do exactly that before you buy.

Each network carries its own check date

There is no single sitewide “last updated” stamp, because that would be close to meaningless across 24 networks that change their prices at different times. Instead every network carries the month it was last checked, shown on its own page next to its ticket list and in the comparison table.

Where the site makes a single claim about freshness — the line in the footer, for instance — it uses the oldest date anywhere on the site rather than the newest, so the claim can never flatter us. That figure is currently May 2026.

Rail is re-checked yearly, bus-based networks twice as often

Metro, tram and light rail fares are reviewed every 12 months. The integrated city networks — the ones built on buses, like the Bee Network and WY Metro — are reviewed every 6 months, because capped bus fares are set by political decisions and move more often than rail fares do.

Once a network passes its review window the site does not quietly keep presenting its fares as current. Its page shows a caution telling you the figures are overdue a review and should be treated as a rough guide, and its date is marked in the comparison table. At the moment no network is overdue.

A date we cannot read counts as old, not new

If a check date is missing or malformed, the page does not fall back to assuming the fares are fine. It treats that network as maximally out of date and shows the strongest caution: that we have no reliable record of when the fares were last checked. A typo therefore makes the site more cautious, never less.

No network is currently in this state. This is enforced automatically rather than by memory: a validator runs over the data and refuses to pass if any date is missing, malformed, implausibly early or in the future.

The sums are derived, never retyped

Where a page works out whether a day ticket is worth buying, it calculates that from the two prices printed directly above it rather than from a separately maintained figure. A price can therefore never drift out of step with the arithmetic beneath it. Where two tickets cannot be compared fairly — a one-zone single against an all-zones day ticket, say — no comparison is shown at all, rather than a misleading one.

The same applies to prices the site cannot read with certainty. A fare quoted as “from” some amount is a floor rather than a price, so it is never multiplied out; those networks simply get no worked example.

Prices are indicative, and you should still check

Operators change fares without much notice, often in January and often without announcement. Use this site to work out which kind of ticket suits your trip — single, day, weekly, or simply tapping a contactless card — and confirm the exact price with the operator before you pay. Every page links to them for precisely this reason.

Nobody pays to be here

No transport operator pays for inclusion, placement or wording, and this site carries no affiliate links or commissioned ticket sales. Links to operators are ordinary links and earn nothing. If advertising appears on the site it is clearly distinguishable from the content and has no influence on what is written.

Photographs

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their individual licences, most of them Creative Commons. Attribution is a condition of those licences, not a courtesy, so the site is built to refuse to display any image whose photographer and licence are not recorded. Full credits are on the photo credits page.

Corrections

If a fare here is wrong, please tell us and it will be corrected and re-dated. Corrections to prices are treated as urgent, because someone may be about to spend money on the strength of them.