[access-uk] Re: Free off-peak national bus travel?
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:17:37 -0000
all the government want you to have is just enough to live on. sometimes
not even that. the way most ppl live today is with massive debts.-----
Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Free off-peak national bus travel?
: Yes Kevin, you may well ask why we're waiting two years! Well, by then an
: election should be on the horizon so maybe it'll catch a few voters?
:
: Only other reason I can think of is delaying spending the money,
especially
: as the budget had a lot to say about efficiency savings etc.
:
: What anoys me is what appears to be a not unusual lack of joined up
thinking,
: especially when you consider the push in the 'back-to-work' emphasis of
: Government social policy. You would think that obliging people to pay
: £250.00 out of a low wage to get to work wouldn't actuly encourage people
to
: err, get to work.
: Ray
:
: Personal emails: Email me at
: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "kevin and emma" <kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
:
:
:: i'm in hampshire and up to now we had free bus travel within the county
:: anytime of the day. this is changing now to only within the particular
:: council borough you live in. still free though. also, i've just read the
:: budget summary on the BBC website, and it only mentions pensioners in
:: relation to this bus travel thing, no mention of disabled people at all.
: i'd
:: like to know also, why it's scheduled for 2 years ahead! 2 years? come
on!
:: Kevin - owner of the blind gamers discussion list
:: contact me via email/msn:
:: kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx
:: ----- Original Message -----
:: From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:: To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:: Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:25 AM
:: Subject: [access-uk] Re: Free off-peak national bus travel?
::
::
:: > 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
:: >
:: > Personal emails: Email me at
:: > mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
:: >
:: > ----- 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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