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Roland Perry wrote:
If would be a very rare council tax payer who doesn't, didn't and won't
ever use PT to a greater or lesser extent. Or those in the household the
council tax is levied on.

I disagree. Five years ago I was living somewhere with excellent public
transport better than a bus every ten minutes; and paid my way on them
several times a week (on quasi-discretional trips as I worked from
home).

I was looking forward to a bus-pass so I could explore the area more,
but "they" changed the rules. So despite having paid in the recent past
into a pot, to give people at a younger age than myself free travel, I
was denied it.

That will teach you to vote Tory, then. They've put up the qualifying age
for almost everything.

Fast forward to now, when I've had my bus pass for a little over a year,
but have genuinely had no opportunity to use it because the bus service
in the new place I live is so appalling. Basically about half the
District Council[1] area is served by one bus an hour, and some of the
rest by one every perhaps three hours. The village I'm most likely to
want to go as a leisure destination basically has minimalistic buses
which are on the school-run [so against the tidal flow I'd need] but
take other passengers too.

No-one else in my household has any realistic proposition of finding the
local bus service useful either.

[1] I'm not blaming them, it's just to give an idea of the footprint.

I'm getting a bit confused by this. Are you saying your council tax
subsidises TFL? The talk of village and one bus an hour doesn't sound like
a TFL area.

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