"Ker-ching!!
Ah many people of "my age" will recall "Ker-ching!" - the cry of the West Yorkshire Metro advertising campaigns for the PTE's Saverstrip carnet range of pre-paid tickets. They appeared in these long card formats and you placed the ticket into a cancelling machine where the next 'section' was clipped out. This can be seen on the left of this ticket where I'd undertaken two trips the day I used this adult Day Rover at some time in the 1980s I suspect. As can be seen it was valid on all PTE operated or supported services so gave both bus and rail travel within the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County area. Such ticketing has, in areas such as West Yorkshire, gone backwards with privatisation and fragmentation of operators and services and 'all-modes' tickets are now not easy to deduce and are often more expensive than single operator versions.
The design is very contemporary with a mix of bold and shaded typefaces and the Metro logo on the 'Day Rover' badging along with the comic book cartoon style "ker-ching!!" balloon. Such tickets - other PTE's had them such as Greater Manchester and West Midlands - were such a godsend to my teenage self as the expolorations they allowed...
"Ker-ching!!
Ah many people of "my age" will recall "Ker-ching!" - the cry of the West Yorkshire Metro advertising campaigns for the PTE's Saverstrip carnet range of pre-paid tickets. They appeared in these long card formats and you placed the ticket into a cancelling machine where the next 'section' was clipped out. This can be seen on the left of this ticket where I'd undertaken two trips the day I used this adult Day Rover at some time in the 1980s I suspect. As can be seen it was valid on all PTE operated or supported services so gave both bus and rail travel within the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County area. Such ticketing has, in areas such as West Yorkshire, gone backwards with privatisation and fragmentation of operators and services and 'all-modes' tickets are now not easy to deduce and are often more expensive than single operator versions.
The design is very contemporary with a mix of bold and shaded typefaces and the Metro logo on the 'Day Rover' badging along with the comic book cartoon style "ker-ching!!" balloon. Such tickets - other PTE's had them such as Greater Manchester and West Midlands - were such a godsend to my teenage self as the expolorations they allowed...