(14 Jul 2015, 7:11 pm)aureolin wrote So does that mean that the local authority gets charged five times for every journey, despite it effectively being a through-fare?
It's good to see services being financially viable, but this seems a bit dodgy. On normal services the passes will only work once, and if it's possible to use the pass again when routes are split it'll give Arriva ideas on routes like the X93 to make pass holders come up for a new ticket at Guisborough and Whitby !
So it's basically the council tax payer who will be paying more than they should be, to further subsidize OAP's days out.
The unfairness with the ENCT scheme is it's free and unlimited: I have no problem with the old folk having a number of free journeys, or unlimited discounted travel, but giving them free unlimited journeys just means they see no value or cost in the service whatsoever, and those of us who pay have to pay more.