Monday, January 22, 2007

Free bus passes?

The free bus pass [for the over 60s] was a good idea but it hasn't been funded so it has become another pressure on the council tax bill which the elderly cannot afford to pay. - Lord Bruce-Lockhart.

If the elderly want additional services, they should expect to contribute towards them!

Should free bus passes for the elderly be means-tested?

1 comment:

haddock said...

I've got a bus pass, but (and there's always a but) in rural Wiltshire we have no buses going anywhere I want to go, there are very few even going to places I don't want to go to !