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Jim McCallum (You Write last month) argues that the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) needs to be reformed.
Leaving aside that this was always a political fix, rather than a transport solution, and that using this public funding to reduce the cost of bus travel for younger people would have been more effective in transport policy terms (but older people tend to vote more), readers may recall that England was the last of the four home nations to introduce a national concessionary travel scheme. It was announced as almost the final item in Gordon Brown’s budget of March 2007 and introduced in April 2008.
I suspect that Mr McCallum may already have an ENCTS card as he suggests that one reform may be to raise the age limit. He seems unaware that this has already happened.
As someone about to reach 60, I am painfully aware that I wou…
