Walter Briscoe wrote:
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Fri, 4 Jan 2008 02:32:03 in uk.transport.london, Mizter T
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Are they really such silly rules? Would you let all English pensioners
use the railway network across England for example?

I believe pensioner train travel has been free in the Irish Republic for
some time. I do not know what the limitations of the scheme are.

ICBW, but I seem to remember reading that the Republic of Ireland has a
significantly younger population than the UK - more yoofs and fewer
wrinklies than here. It might make a difference.

I am uncomfortable with the traffic implications of free travel.

Paying lots for a ticket for a long trip, then having to give up the
seat to a miserable old git who is riding round in circles because it is
free. Shades of teenagers struggling to do school work in public
libraries full of half-mad old biddies shouting to each other.

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Arthur "tolerance" Figgis