May be of Interest to Bus Pass Users

A rather ridiculous stance to be honest. 

“Political” topics are where people debate, argue, fall out over the manifestos and doctrinal beliefs of individual political parties, and quite rightly not going to be a peaceful enough subject for a chat site such as a touring group.

A simple campaign allowing bus passes to be used across the whole UK, regardless of which ever political party is in power is something that will be of interest to the general public no matter what or even if they vote🤷‍♀️

Some folks with a teeny bit of “authority” are often unable to climb down off their own personal pulpits, hence some of the ridiculous stances taken over very simple ideas.🤨 

Signed 👏

TDA

Quite agree. For all we know there could be unanimity across the political spectrum for this idea, just perhaps needs a nudge? With regards to the Group I still don't understand how the Club allows them to identify themselves as a quasi CMC forum using the name and logo!

David

I know about the Club’s own FB page, and I think many moons ago, (years, possibly before the 2016 upgrade) some folks set up another chat group on FB, that had a long list of do’s and don’ts, and what things you could and couldn’t mention and you had to apply for access?

I don’t use FB, but surprised when I looked yesterday that there seems to be more than one CAMC FB chat group. Splinter group maybe, or specialist interest🤷‍♀️

I see a large number of the signatories seem to live in the southern Scottish regions and other parts of the devolved nations.  I wonder why? 🤔

I think this will be difficult to implement unless the eligibility criteria for senior bus passes are standardised  across the nations and English local authorities. A campaign to standardise eligibility would be a better starting point before moving to reciprocal arrangements.

There lies another conundrum. Never mind the devolved nations, why do only folks 60+ in London get a bus pass. 😡

A bus pass is a bus pass in my view. Putting any extra costs to one side it would be simple enough to say that if you can use buses in England you could use buses in Scotland, Wales or NI, and the other way rounds of course. This is the minimum benefit across all parts of the UK. Some individual local authorities may provide a more generous scheme such as London which has been mentioned but I assume that London Council Tax payers foot the bill for that, not the UK or devolved Parliaments. My understanding is that in England the UK Government underwrite the basic scheme and any additions are paid locally. Just as an example, when we were in South Shields a couple of years ago I noticed locals could use their bus passes on the Tyne Ferry but outsiders could not. I think it perfectly fair for a local authority to decide to include extras for their own residents but not to the wider public.

David

Got the bus pass, now send me a bus. 

In the Greater Manchester area, those with Greater Manchester bus passes, can for an extra £10 a year, use trains in the area and the tram.