Government announcement on bus fares

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Bus fares across the country is to get capped at £2 for a single journey from January. This is amazing news and will help so many people especially those of us who have been paying £3 pound. But I do think London should do this as well as it unfair they will pay less than the rest of the country, as they have done for many years. That way they can make some of the money back.

That parental choice. Why should everyone pay for those parents?

I’ve just learned that the biggest college in our rural county - 4000 students - pays £1.75 million a year to subsidise the buses. It’s unaffordable for them and they’re in serious debt now.

Will Andy sort that out?

Not everyone has a "choice"
Some people work in the countryside - you know, the people like farmers and market gardeners who produce your food?
Some food production units are in the countryside and they need staff.
There are village schools in the countryside who need teachers, to say nothing of village Post Offices and small stores.
A lot of seasonal work in the countryside needs labour but it's not regular so people can't take out car loans on the back of it.

Parents have no "choice" when their nearest school is in special measures and has been rated poor/requires improvement for years. No parent would willingly send their kid to a failing crap comp if they value education.

The govt should ensure that ALL schools are of a good standard so that parents don't need to scrimp, save and borrow to get their kids to an adequate school!

Not even "countryside". "Rural" is a broad definition including villages and smaller towns, that often don't have adequate bus networks. People think of "rural" as being a hamlet on a hill side, but in reality it could be a small town of 10,000 inhabitants.