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We don’t know much about the benefits of concessionary fares

Andrew Last, Minnerva Ltd, Reading RG1
26 November 2010
 

Many colleagues will share the concerns about current concessionary travel policy expressed by John Bates at the concessionary travel conference earlier this month.

The costs of the free bus policy – in terms of public expenditure and the possible consequences for the bus network of significantly reduced levels of reimbursement in some places – are relatively self-evident. But the problem with dragging the policy into the political arena, where it can be properly debated, is that...

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