Survive - Devon and Cornwall - page 596

BUS PASSES
A range of bus passes cover cities and districts in Devon and Cornwall. We give a sample here, though cheaper passes,
covering smaller areas, are also often available.

PRICE: ADULT/CHILD/
FAMILY

NAME COMPANY AREA DURATION

Western Grey-
hound

Devon and Corn-
wall

Day Explorer 1 day £8.50/5.50/17

FirstDay Cornwall First Cornwall 1 day £7/6/12

FirstDay Devon First Devon 1 day £7.50/5.30/*

Devon and Corn-
wall

FirstDay Southwest First 1 day £7.60/6.20/18.70

FirstWeek Corn-
wall

First Cornwall 7 days £25/20/35

FirstWeek Devon First Devon 7 days £37/22/58

Devon and Corn-
wall

MeggaRider Gold Stagecoach 7 days £25/*

MeggaRider Stagecoach Exeter 7 days £13/*

MeggaRider Stagecoach North Devon 7 days £10.50/*

MeggaRider Stagecoach Torbay 7 days £17/*

* Note these items do not have child/family fares available.
PlusBus ( www.plusbus.info ) Adds bus travel around towns to your train ticket for £2 a day. Places covered in Devon
and Cornwall are: Barnstaple, Bodmin, Brixham, Camborne & Redruth, Exeter, Falmouth & Penryn, Liskeard,
Newquay, Newton Abbot, Paignton, Penzance, Plymouth, St Austell, Torquay, Totnes and Truro.
Ride Cornwall (adult/child/family £10/7.50/20) A day's off-peak travel in Cornwall on First and Western Greyhound
buses, plus First Great Western and Cross Country trains.

Car & Motorcycle
Devon and Cornwall can't claim an extensive motorway network - there are none west of Exeter. While many stretches
of the counties' key 'A' roads are dual carriageway, some aren't, and the lesser 'A' roads are rarely so.
Sometimes the sheer volume of traffic overwhelms the road network. Be aware: in the southwest in the summer, even
on a clear road, when the sign before a bend says 'traffic queuing ahead' - it's probably going to be true.
The region's cities feature the usual ring roads, traffic jams and sometimes confusing one-way systems - Torquay and
Exeter can be particularly bad. Many towns and cities have pedestrian-only central zones.
'A' roads and many 'B' roads have plenty of petrol and service stations. But it's worth filling up before heading off
these main routes into rural areas, onto the moors or lesser-used coastal routes.
In the towns and cities fuel prices mirror those nationwide, but rise as you head into the countryside.