Lancashire County Council Cuts to Bus Services

[Barney]

RE: Lancashire County Council Cuts to Bus Services

(21/01/2016 12:23)B10B6514 Wrote:  Well put Barney. This government needs to create opportunity so as to create wealth.
Spoken to a few people who will be affected by the loss of the 3A and 347 routes and they are very worried. These are people who have worked hard all they're lives and paid into the system. Now they feel let down and abandoned. Most surprisingly as Lancs pulled figures for the 3A, £100k subsidy with£40k taken in fares, they said why couldn't they be charged a mere 50p per trip with their ENCTS passes and the service would make a profit. These are Conservative voters as well!!!.

The issue of the ENCTS passes is not relevant. In London, as in Merseyside, people are eligible for the concessionary bus pass at 60 years of age and the ENCTS upon reaching state pensionable age. Pensioners in these areas are not required to contribute to the running of these bus services so why should pensioners in the shire counties?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree...regulation


By coincidence, there is a really good piece by Owen Jones (a fully paid up member of the 'looney left' and a political ally of the bearded bogey man) in this morning's Guardian on the whole issue of bus services in the UK since deregulation. It's certainly worth a read.