(14 Mar 2020, 12:42 pm)cbma06 wrote Maybe there’s a simpler explanation why the government are allowing pensioners to have free travel, maybe what was said in the budget a few years ago and what the pensioners are now had to put up through in the 1940’s, as the  younger generation doesn’t realise unless a WW3 arrives, it’s called giving something back


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Incredibly few people who were adults in the 1940s was will still be using public transport. It’s generous to think politicians are thinking of anything beyond their own gain when they were introducing or maintaining ENCTS. Look at the backlash when the over 75’s TV licence was threatened - which was much more affordable for most pensioners. Changing ENCTS would be a PR disaster for the government, so it rumbles on as services are continually withdrawn - see the 81 in Redcar.