Under-22s join call for free travel

Young people told the BBC about the “extortion” cost of the bus trip in the UK, which means they were less socialized and struggling to pay rent.

A report of MPs recommended anyone under 22 years of age. Should get free bus travel To help them get into work and training in a similar way to Scotland.

The Ministry of Transport, “to increase the reliability and frequency of bus services throughout the country has spent 1 billion pounds in multi -year finance,” he said.

However, BBC received news from people who were 22 years old and under the age of 22 years of age and food budgets are very expensive and bus fees are very expensive.

18 -year -old Maisy Moazzenkivi lives in Coventry with his mother, father and brother, and travels almost two hours to go to university four days a week.

Maisy has a disability bus crossing due to its autism, so it pays less than friends to travel. However, the free travel allowance only spends £ 8 a day when it starts half an hour after it should be there after 09:30.

He says that the money he spends on the trip will eat things for food and snacks throughout the day.

“Sometimes, when I finish university, I really hungry and just want to get a dinner agreement or something, but it’s too expensive on everything. I’m very lucky that I can go home and my family can feed me, but everyone has.”

If the bus travel was free, Maisy says it would be more socialized and save for “luxury items”.

“I know that this doesn’t sound like a big deal or an important item, but one day I would like to save for a juicy couture tracksuit.”

The 22 -year -old Gracie Moore lives in Slough, and every day the bus captures from work and work, which costs £ 120 per month.

Gracie, who works as a management assistant for a care house company, says, “For someone who doesn’t earn much more than the minimum wage, it’s a big spending.”

He says that the high travel cost for young people makes it difficult to have a business and a social life.

Travel costs are a “absolutely” factor that prevents her family from coming out of her home.

“I have less independence in this way, but I pay much less money.”

Gracie had previously lived in Madrid, where he enjoyed unlimited travel on bus, train, tube and tram.

Orum I don’t understand how it is so extortion here when other countries in Europe subsidize it so well, or he says. “I don’t know how the transportation price here might be right.”

Originally from Nepal, 20 -year -old Nikita Urerti is an international student studying at the University of Birmingham. He says the rising price of the trip is “difficult” to pay for the bus pass every month.

When Nikita first moved to Birmingham in September 2024, a monthly bus pass with a student discount cost 49 £. Now, 53 pounds to him.

“Student discount is no longer helping us, or he says.

Nikita also works as a waitress for 20 hours a week. Despite the maximum hour to allow the university to allow him to study, he is still fighting to pay his rent while balanced the increasing cost of living.

He says that the free bus travel will “make a big difference” for his life.

“I can spend the money I saved on things that will help my grocery and education. It really helps.”