My 8 year old daughter is no longer allowed to go on the very small and grossly under used bus to school.
She was told the other that she needed a bus pass.
We applied for a bus pass, and was refused a free one because she lived less than 2 miles from the school - apparently walking distance for a supervised 8 year old (summer, winter etc).
I enquired about this, as my drive to the school was very slightly over 2 miles.
The route they measured with included a one way road that I couldn't go up.
Consequently we live 53 metres less than the 2 mile limit to school. That's right, 53 metres. We had to walk 200 metres in the opposite direction to get to the bus stop.
The bus costs either 50p or £1.00 (depending on who you talk to) for a bus journey, or something like £60 for term for a pass.
It costs me (in fuel) 30 - 35p for the journey.
It makes more economic sense to me to drive my daughter to school.
It makes absolutely no sense at all for environmental improvement purposes to not use an under utilised bus service.
A bit of joined up thinking / common sense required? Going to happen?
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