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People who need work the most, able to get to work easily, and earn and pay taxes earlier in their careers? More people using cleaner transport? More people out and about in the high streets and shopping centres? Non-starter. Communist.
So he mentions that the scheme would be self-financing arguing the increased bus usage would boost the economy… why not making bus use free for all ages then with that logic?
If we stopped giving 15+ billion to fossil fuel companies each year then everyone could have free travel & we could build quite a few thousand council homes to.
Just a thought!!
Or just increase the tax free allowance and keep it inline with inflation. People can then put that money towards, public transport, cycling, driving, or how ever they choose to use their money. Taxing people and then giving it back to them as a ‘free gift’ seems like madness… just tax them less.
This policy really helped me at uni in Scotland so I do like it. However “self-financing” the policy is make believe…
Why?
Well I know why…. To get younger support.
Dumb
Bloody disgraceful load of woke nonsense. Back in my day you’d pay ten tuppence and when you got on you’d have to peddle up the hills. If you didn’t peddle hard enough it were a slippering across the hand. We didn’t get through two world wars with free bus passes. No wonder these kids on their ipads don’t know the meaning of a hard days work.
This party is unelectable. This sounds like the ‘free broadband for everyone’ garbage that Corbyn was spewing before he got demolished.
The far left. Utterly delusional.
The UK is skint and spaffing money all over the place under Starmer’s radical regime.
But lets get into even more debt on even more frivolous shit.
These people should not be allowed anywhere near the reigns of power.
Self funding… the Greens lol, good fucking luck running a country.
Can you imagine the gangs of kiddas taking bus rides
We have this in Scotland – my grouchiest opinion but it has been terrible for antisocial behaviour and the general vibe on the buses some routes.
So old people get free bus travel. Young people get free bus travel. Who’s left?
No such thing as free. We already can’t afford all the sh*t the government spends money on. Stop trying to waste even more.
It’s ridiculous that we charge children’s use buses, they have to apply for a free card at the minute, like they have to prove they’re a child for God sake. And if they don’t have the card, they can’t use the bus that’s absolutely mental. Free travel at least for school children age, without having to prove their a child, in 99.9% of the cases it’s pretty bloody obvious.
In theory children should already get free bus travel so what I’m saying is bus drivers should never turn away a child from a bus that’s not safe for the child
Kids in Scotland get free travel if they apply for a Young Scot card, most secondry schools enroll them, but if you miss it the council office will do it. It is a great scheme. My daughter does a 50mile round trip to college on it.
Just make it funded through taxation for everyone.
You could get rid of all the charging infrastructure and it would encourage people to take the bus much more.
More bus usage gives more justification for more buses which improves regularity which makes taking the bus a more reliable option.
That in turn benefits everyone, especially those who drive who will have to deal with less road congestion because other people are sat on the bus instead.
But the money can’t come from nowhere. You’ll have to increase taxes.
There is a free bus in Manchester City centre and it was amazing how much smoother it ran; people just got on quickly and then the bus pulled away. No long selling tickets phase.
I’d look seriously at making them free for everyoneÂ
Everyone under 18, yeah sure, I’m a reform voter and I thought the other day it would be a good idea to get people used to public transport from a young age, but 22 come on, and pretending it will be self-financing is stupid, I thought of it as a short term cost for a long term gain
It is free in Scotland.
Worth doing but learn the lessons. You need to be able to revoke the free bus travel, I live in Kilmarnock and it has resulted in kids from the various schemes coming into the town centre and causing trouble. The Scottish government is currently looking to change it so they can remove it if you are causing anti social behavior.