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An operator's perspective on England's concessionary fares muddle

Alan Peters Proprietor, Abus Faresaver, Bristol BS4.
19 October 2006
 

After six months of operating the present travel card scheme in our area, where we have substantially been, as the mantra goes, 'no better or no worse off', we are actually experiencing a 1.05% increase in total revenue on one of our main services.

We have been amazed to receive notification from the travel concession authority that, owing to the number of pensioners using the scheme, that we understood was in force for 12 months, they are now going to reduce our level of reimbursement by 26%....

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