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An example of a senior pass. The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme is a national scheme by the Department for Transport in conjunction with local authorities across England. The scheme extended the provision of free bus travel within individual local authorities to allow travel throughout England from 1 April 2008. [1]
The Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which entitles all people resident in England who are either disabled or over the age of 60 to free travel on local buses at off-peak times anywhere within England (transport being a devolved matter and therefore within the purview of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly ...
Three free bus routes also operate in Manchester city Centre. England-wide travel provided by the DfT for over-60s and eligible disabled people between 09:30-23:00 weekdays and all day weekends under the English National Concessionary Bus Travel Scheme. Similar schemes operate in Scotland (see below) and Wales; however there is no unified ...
As well as new routes, Nik Johnson has worked to retain routes when bus operators cut services for example the Number 9 bus between Littleport and Cambridge [39] In other moves to keep bus travel affordable, Johnson proposed to keep the £2 bus fare cap until the end of March 2025. [40] and that from May 2025 concessionary bus pass holders will ...
A guided bus entering the concrete busway track. Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is the world's longest guided busway and passes through Cambridge. [3] The designated route runs on normal road from Huntingdon to St Ives, then via a bus-only guided section along the former Cambridge-St Ives railway south-east into Cambridge, where it rejoins the road at either Milton Road or Histon Road and then ...
Freedom Pass is a concessionary travel scheme, which began in 1973, to provide free travel to residents of Greater London, England, for people with a disability or over the progressively increasing state pension age [1] (60 for women in 2010, increased to 66 for everybody until about 2026, then increasing further). [2]
The National Transport Token scheme evolved from the practice of many local authorities in the UK of issuing concessionary fare tokens to certain groups of people under their jurisdiction. In 1967, Manchester Corporation and Droylsden Urban District Council combined their concessionary fare initiatives to produce a token available across both ...
4 day rail rover (UK, 1994). A transit pass (North American English) or travel card (British English), often referred to as a bus pass or train pass etc. (in all English dialects), [1] [2] is a ticket that allows a passenger of the service to take either a certain number of pre-purchased trips or unlimited trips within a fixed period of time.