Bus operators blamed for cost of Welsh discount youth travel

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The Welsh Government is blaming bus operators for the high initial cost of its discount travel scheme for people aged 16 to 18.

The MyTravelPass scheme started as a 19-month pilot in September 2015. A Wales Audit Office report showed that, in 2016/17, the first full year of the pilot scheme, the Government paid operators £9.47m for participating. The funding during the pilot was distributed through a formula that took account of each operator’s registered service mileage and free...

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