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Will DfT pull back from the brink of destroying local bus networks?

James Dark
12 November 2010
 

It is hard to know what to make of the Government’s forthcoming reforms to concessionary fares policy, except that they are unlikely to end well. 

The bare facts are that over a third of English bus passengers travel for free under the concessionary fares scheme for the elderly and disabled and that operators are meant to be reimbursed in a way that leaves them no better or worse off from this arrangement. However, from April 2011 payment to operators for providing this service is...

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