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Pensioners' fury at calls to scrap passes (From Daily Echo)
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Pensioners' fury at calls to scrap passes
10:28am Saturday 10th November 2012 in News
Pensioners' fury at calls to scrap passes
MANY Echo readers have reacted angrily to the suggestion pensioners are freeloading or to blame for bus routes being axed.
Elizabeth King, an 81-year-old retired civil servant from Winchester, said she and her friends, who meet up for weekly line dancing classes, were “spitting feathers” when they read the letters.
Mrs King, of Hubert Road, St Cross, said: “Do pensioners add to the cost of running the buses?
“A bus service needs to be run where possible. Why stop pensioners using the empty seats to help them enjoy their wellearned retirement?
“Getting us out and about must help the local economy.
“Taking away the bus passes would have the effect of confining many old people to their homes, resulting in a lonely and solitary way of life.”
For the big bus pass debate click here
Comments(7)
loosehead
says...
2:09pm Sat 10 Nov 12
only the same amount if the bus was only a third full could you continue to run a business on only a third of your income?
soon you'll be crying as there's no busses
bazzeroz
says...
2:36pm Sat 10 Nov 12
Northamboy wrote:T.osser
Does this really deserve three entries on the Echos website?
Leave the pensioners alone Echo you would do well to remember we all with luck get old enough to have a bus pass.
bigal007
says...
2:42pm Sat 10 Nov 12
this is my only way i can get out !!
dont take it away !!
Northamboy
says...
8:45pm Sat 10 Nov 12
bazzeroz wrote:Haha just what I expected from you.
Northamboy wrote:T.osser
Does this really deserve three entries on the Echos website?
Leave the pensioners alone Echo you would do well to remember we all with luck get old enough to have a bus pass.
loosehead
says...
9:04pm Sat 10 Nov 12
bigal007 wrote:I've suggested looking at how much a pensioners pension is before giving a bus pass would you agree?
i am 38 i have very bad legs i can not drive as to my meds for my legs if they take away the bus pass it would be very bad for me it would mean four walls day in day out may be it should be means tested
this is my only way i can get out !!
dont take it away !!
bigal007
says...
1:36pm Sun 11 Nov 12
loosehead wrote:ye that would be good
bigal007 wrote:I've suggested looking at how much a pensioners pension is before giving a bus pass would you agree?
i am 38 i have very bad legs i can not drive as to my meds for my legs if they take away the bus pass it would be very bad for me it would mean four walls day in day out may be it should be means tested
this is my only way i can get out !!
dont take it away !!
Northamboy says...
1:12pm Sat 10 Nov 12
Leave the pensioners alone Echo you would do well to remember we all with luck get old enough to have a bus pass.