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Children less than 5 years of age may accompany and adult fare paying customer free of charge providing they do not occupy a seat required by a fare paying customer. Unaccompanied children will be charged at the appropriate child fare for the journey being made. Where a child under 5 is accompanied by another child then either both pay the child fare or one child should pay the adult fare and the other travel free – whichever is the cheaper.

Children aged between 5 and 15 will be charged the appropriate child fare.

After their sixteenth birthday children will be charged Adult fares. The exception to this is children aged 16, 17 and 18 in full time education and in posession of a READI-id card who will be charged the approproate child fare.

PLEASE NOTE: The 'READI-id' card will entitle the bearer to child rate fares and travel products. Child rate fares and travel products will only be available to those aged 14 and 15 on production of the READI-id card. After this date any child over the age of 14 without a READI-id will be charged full adult fares, so it is important that an application is made as soon as possible.

View our READI-id leaflet

After 10.00pm no child fares will be issued. Child Travelcards and Child Return fares will remain valid however.

Child Day Return tickets are covered in the Return Fares section.

The current Child Travelcard Rates are:-

Area A (Greater Reading Urban Area) - click here for map of Area A

£10.00 (7 consecutive days)
£36.00 (30 consecutive days)
£103.00 (90 consecutive days)

Area B - click here for a map of Area B

£14.00 (7 consecutive days)
£48.00 (30 consecutive days)
£137.50 (90 consecutive days)

Newbury/Thatcham Zonal Area

£19.00 (7 consecutive days)
£36.00 (30 consecutive days)
There is no 90 day version.

Network Travelcard

£19.50 (7 consecutive days)
£68.00 (30 consecutive days)
£194.50 (90 consecutive days)

The fares information in this section of the website is applicable from Monday 7 July 2008.

Student behaviour on buses

The company has launched an initiative to improve poor behaviour on buses by a small minority of students and young people who use our services.

A leaflet has been published drawing attention to this small minority whose poor behaviour causes distress and offence to other customers on our services. As well as being unpleasant, bad behaviour can sometimes escalate into dangerous situations which can endanger other people’s safety.

Click here for more details.