Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Just means the age they'll get state pension, not whether they are actually working to not.

I think a gradual rise in the age of the state pension age is fair enough and inevitable as we live longer.

Id also support some redistribution of some things in terms of pension age benefits.

I support the free bus pass at 60 benefit. It keeps people out of the house and socialising and helps those traditionally on low incomes etc

But at the same time in work, we have some healthy 60 year olds on cracking wages buzzing around the city for free whilst we have people in the early 20s on much lower wages paying a decent chunk every week to commute.

Personally id shift it. Free bus travel from 65+, and half price bus travel for people up to 30 or whatever.
Id probably cap a journey at 2 quid or less for everyone and fund the rest at this point but I would get strung up by the daily mail comments section. I don't really see any reason why older people need it to be free, link it all together better and give people some kind of weekly pass via an oyster type totting up process that makes a journey cost almost nothing if you use it a lot. I think Burnham might have got an oyster style system sorted in Manchester so it's difficult but possible.

There are so many good reasons to push people towards buses and if they were busy/full more routes and a better service would be viable.