On my local bus operators from my local bus stop to the station (a return distance of about 8 miles) it costs £1.50 on the Yellows which run every 10 minutes, and £1.60 on the W&Ds which run every 7-8.
Do you really have 14 buses an hour?
Are there enough passengers?
If not it just shows the folly of bus derugulation and competiton.
On our recent trip to Edinburgh we bought day tickets on Lothian only to find that the 44 route which took us back to our accomodation was jointly run by Lothian and First and tickets aren't interchangable so we couldn't catch the first First bus and had to wait for the Lothian.
Madness. It's about time we had tarriff unions as on the continent whereby all train (local) Underground/Metros, tram and bus tickets are interchangable and the same price depending on the zones you travel through.
The Zonal fare system with Travelcards (and later Oystercards) was one of the finest things the much reviled Ken Livingstone bought in when he was leader of the GLC, plus he fought off bus deregulation and kept control under TFL.
He did slip up with providing free bendy buses.
