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"John @ home" writes

The House of Commons Library published a paper last month describing
bus concessionary fare schemes in the UK.
http://www.parliament.uk/briefingpap...ch/briefings/s
nbt-01499.pdf

Yesterday, they published another paper describing a proposal in 2002
to limit bus concessions for older and disabled people to a half fare.
I wonder why?
http://www.parliament.uk/briefingpap...ch/briefings/s
nbt-02009.pdf

The coalition government wants to review the financing of the scheme,
while at the same time being committed to free travel for the people
concerned.

AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the costs
don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in particular,
those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist destinations end up
paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors.
--
Paul Terry