(21 Oct 2022, 1:49 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Here's some potentially controversial opinions:

• Start charging for under 5s, if they take up a seat, they pay for a seat.
  
• Charge extra for pushchairs that aren't folded as they take up 3 seats (I would say the same for wheelchairs, but I'm sure that would be illegal)
  
• Scrap free concessionary travel for all over 65s or whatever it is now, and make it a means tested benefit. People who can afford to pay for the bus, shouldn't get it free, and likewise people who are struggling should at least get some help towards bus fares (how very un-tory of me to think of the poor people)
  

 
Sometimes I fail to understand why, unless they have shopping of course, people bring pushchairs on busses especially when they go 2 or three stops as if they don't have basically a granny walker just with a bairn inside.

I also can’t stress enough my agreement with the concessionary passes, they’re given out way too lightly for a start which is costing someone, somewhere a ridiculous amount of money. Really instead of being scrapped it needs to be managed better and handed out by the government and not by councils. I know in seaham I could go to citizens advice and tell a bunch of porkies with no proof and I’ll have it within a week.