Get your single journey ticket from the driver by paying in cash. You can sometimes get a return or day ticket for that company if the same bus company runs the journey there and back, but this isn't always the case so single fares are sometimes best.

There are other tickets that are valid for a longer period of time or allow you to combine bus, train and tram journeys. You cannot buy these from the driver.

Junior Bus Saver
Anyone aged between 5 and 15 can obtain a Junior Bus Saver that lets you travel for 7 days and saves you money. Visit the SystemOne Travel website for more details.

Buy them from GMPTE Travelshops and local Paypoint outlets. You need an Under 16 Card to buy them. Download a Scholar's permit application form or get one from a GMPTE Travelshop.

Young Persons Bus Savers
Designed for anyone aged 16 to 21, use it to travel by bus around Greater Manchester. Tickets can be bought for 7 days, 28 days, or annual basis with production of a valid Young Persons' Travel Club membership card. Visit the SystemOne Travelcards website for more details.

Buy them from GMPTE Travelshops and local Paypoint outlets.

Wayfarer
Your complete day-travel ticket. Simply scratch off the date that you travel on.

Buy in advance and travel throughout Greater Manchester, parts of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and the Peak District. View Wayfarer page on main GMPTE site for more details.

Wayfarer tickets can be used on trains and Metrolink trams from 9.30am Mon-Fri and all day at weekends and bank holidays. They can be used on buses anytime.

Interested? Get them before you begin your journey from GMPTE Travelshops, staffed train stations, tourist information centres in the Peak District and by post from Wayfarer ticket sales, GMPTE, Wythenshawe Bus Station, Rowlands Way, Wythenshawe, M22 5RG.

You can't buy Wayfarer tickets on board the bus, train or at Metrolink stops.

Local and national information for public transport
Please call Traveline on 0871 200 22 33. Lines are open from 7am-8pm, Mon-Fri and 8am-8pm weekends and bank holidays.