Free transport to under 18's

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Originally Posted by Leaahh.

I think we should all get free transport, should be included in taxes. Also yeah buses and that aren't safe at all, ive heard about being getting stabbed and all sorts on buses and the driver does nothing :S

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ill txt u 50p in the pound like tht +*+*+*+*+



nah it shouldn't be free, the majority of people who use buses are pensioners and teenagers, pensioners get it free already so i dont think it's feasible to let teenagers get it too.

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Originally Posted by Cod

ill txt u 50p in the pound like tht +*+*+*+*+



nah it shouldn't be free, the majority of people who use buses are pensioners and teenagers, pensioners get it free already so i dont think it's feasible to let teenagers get it too.

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Why not?

Probably not. Free Train ad I'll run away from home.

I think we should get 80p bus fair atleast.
I nearly got my pass taken off me the other day 'cos I used it to go Dr's before college ;l
I don't have a Job, how do they expect me to pay full fair everywhere I go it's already costing me about £20 a week In bus fairs :(

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Originally Posted by AlexOC

Why not?

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Because it'd lose the bus companies a lot of revenue.

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Originally Posted by Sly

I think we should get 80p bus fair atleast.
I nearly got my pass taken off me the other day 'cos I used it to go Dr's before college ;l
I don't have a Job, how do they expect me to pay full fair everywhere I go it's already costing me about £20 a week In bus fairs :(

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The fact is that you should maybe consider getting a job, if you can't afford things then you need to get a job. If you can't genuinely find work then you will just need to keep looking and hope for the best.

Hi we're not going to get free transport. OK thanks.

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Originally Posted by Tash.

As you said above it's not easy to walk into a shop job for everyone, some people don't have the confidence to work in a busy shop, they might have anxiety issues and some people just don't have the people skills. What are they supposed to do?

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Well I don't have the anxiety issues or whatever but I got a job working evenings in an office when I was at college... still there but that's just me being too lazy to get a real job. Point being that shop work is not the only thing available to college students in any way

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Originally Posted by AlexOC

I think we should get free transport. Although 80p for me at the moment dosent sound much, thats £8 to school and back for my mum on top of the £25 dinner money. After your 18, you might have a job, more income and can support travel expences more yourself.

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£8 + £25 = £33
EMA is £30, so that sounds about right then if you really have to spend £25 on food which is frankly a ridiculous amount. I do my own food shopping and can get away with spending £15 a week sometimes and that's fresher and healthier stuff, 2 or 3 meals a day all week not just mon-fri, so you could clearly spend less than a fiver a day on food for school.

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

those who have little money are paying for their children to go to school

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Since when?

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Originally Posted by Leaahh.

I think we should all get free transport, should be included in taxes.

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Yeah let's raise taxes by the amount that annual spending on public and private transport costs, then double that because more people will be using it once it's free.

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

Well I don't have the anxiety issues or whatever but I got a job working evenings in an office when I was at college... still there but that's just me being too lazy to get a real job. Point being that shop work is not the only thing available to college students in any way

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All I can say is you're lucky, I looked for this kind of job when I was at college and found nothing of the sort. Maybe it's where I live, but the only jobs available to young people on evenings/weekends here are shop work and working in hotels/cafes.

If it were free, it should work in a similar way to the EMA, so parents earn a certain amount or less its free, between certain numbers it's discounts and over something it's unaffected.

Personally I would love it but we need to sort ourselves out first.