£6 anywhere in town in the day, the borough priced by zone, a car in about eight minutes
Local fares around Pontypridd
Anywhere in Pontypridd town to anywhere else in it for a flat £6 in the day; Treforest, Rhydyfelin, Church Village, Cilfynydd, Porth and the rest of the borough priced by zone on the fares page; the station, the hospital, the shops and home from the pub, with a car in about eight minutes most of the day.
Most of what we do is short: the station to the Graig with a suitcase, the Co-op to Trallwn with the shopping, the Royal Glamorgan back to Cilfynydd after a long afternoon, home from the Llanover Arms. The fares for those are fixed by zone and they are on this website, because the one thing everyone wants to know before they ring is what it will cost.
In the day, anywhere inside Pontypridd town (Taff Street to the station, Gelliwastad to Sardis Road, Ynysangharad Park to the Graig foot) is £6 flat, or £4.50 for a hop of under half a mile. Beyond the town the borough is in zones and every zone has a fare to every other on the fares page: Treforest and the University £7, Rhydyfelin and Hawthorn £8, Church Village and Tonteg £10, Taff's Well £11, Porth £11, Abercynon and Ynysybwl £13. Between midnight and 5am, and on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, fares are 25% more, and that is the only uplift there is.
Ring, use the app, or walk into the office on Gelliwastad Road. In the day there are sixteen cars on the road and the usual wait in town is eight minutes; on a Friday or Saturday night nine cars run until 3am and the wait at kicking-out time is honestly twenty. The dispatcher tells you the car, the colour and the driver's name, and the app shows it coming. Pay the driver by card or cash, or on the app.
Waiting is free for ten minutes and £5 a quarter hour after that, and the driver says when it starts. Return trips are two single fares; there is no charge for a second passenger, luggage, a pushchair, a folding wheelchair or a dog that travels in the boot on a blanket we carry. Five to eight people need an eight-seater, which is 40% more and seats everyone with the bags.
What is included
- £6 flat anywhere in town, in the day
- The borough priced by zone, on the website
- A car in about eight minutes most of the day
- Card, cash or the app
- Ten minutes' waiting free, then £5 a quarter hour
- Pushchairs, luggage and the dog at no extra
What it costs
A flat £6 anywhere within Pontypridd town in the day, £4.50 minimum for a short hop. The borough by zone: Treforest £7, Rhydyfelin £8, Church Village £10, Porth £11, Abercynon £13 from the town centre. 25% more between midnight and 5am. The fares page has every zone to every destination and the quote; the airports page has the three airports in detail.
Questions about local fares
Do you have a meter?
The cars carry the council meter as the law requires, but every fare on this website is fixed and is what you pay, which is nearly always less than the meter would show on the A470 at five o'clock. The meter runs only on journeys outside the zones we have priced, and the driver tells you first.
How long will I wait on a Saturday night?
Honestly, about twenty minutes between eleven and one, with nine cars running. Book a time earlier in the evening and the car is yours at that time.
Ring for a car now, or book a fixed time for the airport.
Cars on the road twenty-four hours a day from the office on Gelliwastad Road, with the fare fixed before you get in. Ring 01443 496 0700 any hour, or book here for a set time, an airport run, an eight-seater or the ramp car and the office confirms within the hour in the day.