{"id":1775,"date":"2011-11-26T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T11:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2011-11-27T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T20:15:17","slug":"a-local-authority-with-too-much-money-in-its-concessionary-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"A local authority with too much money in its concessionary fund!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea Council is <del datetime=\"2011-11-26T14:14:39+00:00\">wasting<\/del> spending \u00c2\u00a335,000 of its concessionary (travel) fund to give all under 16&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15885686\">free bus travel<\/a>, any time, any day, any where, in Swansea for two and a half weeks over Christmas.  What a complete waste of money, I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t pay my Council Tax to Swansea!<\/p>\n<p>One aim of the scheme is &#8220;&#8230; to help families with a lot of children who want to come into the city centre to use facilities like the shops, leisure centre and Winter Wonderland.&#8221;  I can empathise with that and if one of the conditions of travel were that the under 16 year old must travel with a parent I&#8217;d applaud the scheme.  However, that&#8217;s not case so I&#8217;m sure the majority of free under 16 journeys will be made by 12 &#8211; 16 year olds travelling all over the place just for &#8216;something to do&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A far better use of \u00c2\u00a335,000 of concessionary travel money would be to give school leaving registered job seekers free travel between 09:00 and 17:00 (likely interview times) in order for them to attend interviews or to just get out and knock on employer&#8217;s doors in order to find work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea Council is wasting spending \u00c2\u00a335,000 of its concessionary (travel) fund to give all under 16&#8217;s free bus travel, any time, any day, any where, in Swansea for two and a half weeks over Christmas. What a complete waste of money, I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t pay my Council Tax to Swansea! One aim of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}