Concessionary travel has distorted the local bus market

Roger Sexton, Nottingham
26 November 2010
 

Your feature on proposed bus Quality Contracts for West Yorkshire was very fair and well balanced, but ignored ‘the elephant in the room’. That elephant – free bus travel for seniors – has completely distorted the economics of bus operation, particularly on rural (and some inter-urban) routes where free seniors usually form the majority of the passengers. But it also distorts the ‘market’ on purely urban routes where there is competition. Seniors get on the...

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