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Make child fares available to under 18s, rather than only under 16s.

Submitted on Tuesday 9th February 2016

Rejected on Friday 12th February 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make child fares available to under 18s, rather than only under 16s.

Petition Details

At the age of 16, you can leave school and go into employment. At this age you are payed a minimum wage of £3.87 per hour. However, bus, rail and other public transport companies charge a 16 or 17 year old an adult fare (unless they are in full time education and have a student pass).


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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