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Bus pass

Their trying to scrap free bus pass for over 1.5 million people.

Barbara Stevens ● 2d12 Comments

TFL should go after fayre dodgers to save money but stopping 60's Oyster cards is an easy & option for them.

Ayla Currell ● 5h

Then they could do car share and pretend to be a bus.

Barbara Stevens ● 1d

Or you could say that, because so many people who get free travel, the price for everyone else is pushed up making more switch to using their cars.

Peter Higgins ● 1d

Shame you are unable to use it that early in the morning Karen, you deserve it.

Barbara Stevens ● 1d

I am over 60 and still working, although I still have to pay to go to work as I leave home between 6.30 - 7am (before the pass start time 9.30am). I only get the free travel back home in the evening.If I could afford to retire now I would, but unfortunately I will have to keep going for as long as I can, having the pass to get home has helped me to continue working.It would be awful if this were to be taken away!!

Karen Taylor ● 1d

"This is a first for me, but I agree with David."I'm not sure that it is a first, but certainly a real rarity (although I seem to remember that we both were early to be against Starmer on here - probably for rather different reasons).Anyway, thank you. I would suggest that you keep this temporary congruence secret though, in your own interest.

David Ainsworth ● 2d

Oh, Michael hit the nail on the head, meant to keep residents from driving, all get your vehicles out and block everywhere, ha ha,ha, the Government gets thicker.

Barbara Stevens ● 2d

The other factor to keep in mind is that free bus, tube and train travel in London for people aged 60+ encourages them to use public transport rather than cars.

Michael Ixer ● 2d

But people did retire at 60, I didn't I deferred it for 3 years and kept working. that's obviously why when people reached 60 they got their prescriptions free and a bus pass. Lets give more to the illegals, that's why more being taken from pensioners.

Barbara Stevens ● 2d

This is a first for me, but I agree with David.The over 60 oyster card was introduced by Boris i believe and has proved to be an unaffordable largesse.Everywhere else in the country you have to wait for the freedom pass. I'd go further and suggest free prescriptions should only kick in at pension age ( apart from the usual exceptions) . But that would take a very brave govt.

Andy Pike ● 2d

Well the reason they work is because they have made claiming pension age higher. Also you used to be able to get a bus pass if you are over 60 if you paid £20 towards it.

Barbara Stevens ● 2d

"According to TfL, 60% of Oyster card holders aged between 60-65 are still employed, with one in five using it for commuting.This is despite the fact that workers in this age group earn an average of £42,000 annually, nearly double the £24,000 earned by Brits in their early twenties. Reem Ibrahim, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, called into question the financial logic behind certain travel perks for seniors: "It is difficult to justify a system where the wealthiest age group in the country is having their travel funded by taxpayers.""https://www.mylondon.news/news/cost-of-living/londons-over-60s-free-bus-31844247Always seemed daft to give it to non-retired people. Unless below a certain wage-level perhaps.

David Ainsworth ● 2d