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Taxpayers won’t have to fund half fares for the elderly

John Disney
03 September 2010
 

David Holding (Letters LTT 06 Aug) misses the point raised by Roger Sexton concerning half-fare travel on all modes at all times, which was originally raised by the Commission for Integrated Transport and supported by research that I conducted in the last decade.

A half-fare scheme scheme would be (almost) self-financing rather than the £1bn+ poured into the current free bus fare schemes which, as Andrew Last correctly points out, are a generous subsidy to a small minority of pensioners....

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