Pass delays

posted by Cptn

If you’re looking forward to your concessionary bus pass plopping through the door tomorrow (April 1), then you’re going to be disappointed.

But despite the delays to the passes for the scheme, Devon councils have teamed up to provide an interim solution – those with Around Torbay and Devonwide passes can travel free on the buses throughout Devon and Cornwall.

‘This temporary facility will be available up to, and including, Sunday 13 April, by which time it is expected that people whose national bus pass has been ordered will have received it,’ says the press release, which goes on to explain: ‘The new national bus passes will enable anyone aged 60 or over, and people who qualify through disability, to travel anywhere in England on local bus services free of charge from 9.30am to 11pm on Mondays to Fridays, and at any time at weekends and on Bank Holidays.’

Oh, and the councils would also like it know that the delays are nothing to do with them.

(Cue joke about four arriving at once… not.)

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