This Council Motion concerns the decision of the Labour Government to increase the bus fare cap by 50% from 1 January 2024.
This will cost a working person who commutes on the bus each day an extra £450 a year. It will also hit those struggling with the cost of living, who will be more likely to rely on bus services.
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Council notes the Labour Government’s decision to raise the single fare cap on buses in England from £2 to £3 at the end of this year. This represents an increase of 50%.
It will cost someone who commutes to and from work everyday on the bus an extra £450 a year, roughly the equivalent of a 1% tax rise for the average person.
Council believes that such a large, above inflation, hike on bus fares at a time when the Labour Government will hit working people and those struggling with the cost of the living the most.
Added to the Labour Government’s choice to remove the Winter Fuel Allowance from pensioners and their failure to scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap, the bus fare is the latest in a line of measures that will unfairly impact thousands of people in AREA NAME.
Council resolves to request the Chief Executive, the Leader and the Portfolio Holder for transport to write to the Secretary of State for Transport to demand that they scrap the bus fare increase.