(14 Jun 2016, 8:16 pm)Deleted wrote U16 cards should be the responsibility of the schools. They should be available for free school travel before 0930 and between 1500 and 1700. The cost should be taken from the ENCTS budget, to weight it out OAP ENCTS passes should not be valid  when U16 passes are. It's unacceptable that a child with no form of income has to pay to travel to school but a pensioner who had a source of income travels for free.

Children may not have their own income, but the parents will have. Also, "pensioners" are reducing in number overall as etirement Age gets closer to Life Expectancy. Further, Pensioners don't damage buses and initimidate other passengers........and unless suffering from serious disability, they solely use mainstream buses wheras many school chikdren use heavily subsidised bespoke services.