[access-uk] Re: Free off-peak national bus travel?
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:25:26 -0000
We have a truly weird situation here in the West Midlands. The concession
here is administered by a QANGO known as Centro. Some local authorities
subsidise the Centro £250 full pass so that in Birmingham, well until
recently, you paid just over 30 quid for West Midlands wide travel.
Neighbouring borough Sandwell obliges its residents to pay the full £250
whack for travel before 9:30. Other local authorities seem to come somewhere
in between.
I guess those hit the hardest by the less generous arrangements of some local
authorities are the working low waged people who face another disincentive to
take up more lowly paid jobs, and that's probably the majority of the
minority of VI people who do happen to be working but aren't paid very
highly.
Naturally those who fare worst under this scheme of things feel most
aggrieved, but as with blindness related campaigning generally this
complaining doesn't surface outside the pub and into a more concerted and
articulate demand.
Guess this is rather off-topic here, but whatever your feelings about travel
subsidies and concessions, people are bound, increasingly, to make
comparisons with Scotland where the holy grail of free travel anywhere within
its boarders seems to have become a reality.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mel Spooner" <mel.spooner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I will actually be worse off with this new scheme as I travel before 9:30
in the mornings. They are replacing the half price pass I currently have
with this off peak one.
Mel
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