Rejected petition Standardise the age when people can get a bus pass across the UK to 60.

It is unfair that parts of the UK become eligible at 60 whereas other people have to wait until state pension age.

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Apart from being very unfair that getting a bus pass after the age of 60 depends on where you live. It makes no financial or environmental sense. Buses are not fully utilised during the working day – therefore it would cost ‘nothing’ to allow a pensioner take up an unoccupied seat. And it could also reduce pollution, if pensioner does not use a car but uses a bus instead (assuming they have access to a car).

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170358

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Date submitted 29 March 2017
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