Nessun abbonamento gratuito all’autobus per i minori di 22 anni, afferma il governo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9drlgenjno
di denyer-no1-fan
Nessun abbonamento gratuito all’autobus per i minori di 22 anni, afferma il governo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9drlgenjno
di denyer-no1-fan
12 commenti
Funny how it is affordable for the over 65s though.
Surely we should be prioritising public transport usage over cars. End the car subsidies (frozen fuel levies, salary sacrificed electric cars, constant handouts to car manufacturers, etc) and instead use that money to get people onto trains and buses cheaply.
I bet the out of touch pricks are wondering why they don’t just ask to use mummy and daddy’s range rover
Good, people need to start doing shit for themselves instead of constantly wanting the state to do shit for them. It’s becoming ridiculous.
Seriously just help young people out just alittle bit. I would hate to be a teenager in these present times
I live in Geneva, an annual pass for trains, buses, ferries in the entire canton and surrounding areas in another country is around £500 for a year. For buses/trains/ferries that come on time and many times an hour almost 24/7, and can get pretty much anywhere you want.
Add an extra £200 for first class (and swiss first class is *much* better than UK first class).
I used to live in Liverpool on about a 10th of the wage I get in Switzerland, an annual train pass, just trains, with heavy restrictions in just Merseyside is around £2000. Ontop of that would need a bus pass as most of the city isn’t served by train, another ~£1000, on top of that I would regularly have to pay for taxis because the trains and buses are often cancelled/extremely late with no reasonable replacement service, about another ~ £1000 a year.
Free bus passes aren’t needed, reasonably priced public transportation that actually works is needed.
Buses should be free for all. Hop on hop off. It would pay for itself in various ways
If you’re young, want a job, need to travel for anything, or if you’re a bit older and like retraining/changing career, it’s very clear the message is “get fucked”
But if I’m over 65, I get anything I want. Give the young ones a chance ffs
When I was an apprentice, the wage at the time was a whopping £2.73 an hour (I realise this sentence makes me sound like an old man shaking my fist at a cloud, but this was only in 2015). My weekly bus pass would cost me £16 a week.
I couldn’t drive at the time, and I lived in a place where walking or cycling to work was simply not feasible. I had to depend on public transport.
Spending a day’s wages just getting to work for the week wasn’t a great feeling (and it was a shit job anyway).
If the government want to encourage young people to get to work, and they want to encourage the use of public transport, they need to make it appealing and approachable.
And don’t even get me started on the price of trains.
We made all public transport fares in Brisbane 50 cents a ride. That’s 25p. It’s what you can do when you don’t have successive governments obsessed with austerity.
Nationalise essential services some of these companies draw profits that could support other less profitable services.
Old people can have it all.
Triple lock. Free bus pass. Winter fuel allowance.
Young people. Sorry you’re on your own.