Submitted on Friday 13th January 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Review free bus travel over 60 - perhaps raise age and grant free bus travel to under 21s.
Many over 60s can afford bus travel. However, the benefit of blanket rule is that means-testing gets complicated, is costly in itself and it's hard to know when to draw the line. As people get older they get more frail etc (!) so bus passes and free travel should remain but should be for over 65s or 70s. Especially given that retirement age is 65 and only going to rise.
Goverment money saved should be used to allow young people, under 21, free bus travel. This would aid the unemployed in looking for work, students (particular those in the 16-19 bracket) getting to /from college (reducing beaurocracy in individual educational institutes). Furthermore it would grant young people more independence, relying less on their parents/carers. It would help those for whom running a car is just not viable, to get around, promoting equality of opportunity. By 21 hopefully most of these young people will be more able to cope independently. It would help break the catch 22.
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