Re:The United States needs fewer bus stops
by pasc1878 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:01AM
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Elderly in all of England have the equivalent of a Freedom Pass but just for busses (Freedom Passes include almost all Tfl transport, e.g. underground, trams, DLR and some Nationbal Rail inside London)
Unfortunately the bus passes and freedom passes are not interchangeable and sometimes have to be manually checked if not in the local region,
Elderly will have to do that, too, because a) I expect they still want to track usage, and b) allowing some passengers to hop on a bus without checking in makes it too easy for those ineligible to do that (e.g. elderly who do not live in London) to try and do that, too.